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.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

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.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about it? Because the people would begin to think that the law is not stable, the law is unclear. And that would not give them much faith in the law.

Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.