I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

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

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.

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.

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.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.