Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

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

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.