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

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

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

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.