One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

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.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.