“It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”

Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.