Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

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

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

My own view, and I've said this many times, is as long as I can do the work full steam, I will stay on the Court. But when I feel myself slipping, when I slow down in my ability to write opinions with fair dispatch, when I forget the names of cases that I once could recite at the drop of a hat, I will know it is time for me to go.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.