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

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

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

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.