In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.