After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.