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.

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

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

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

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

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.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.