My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.

I'm not very good at promotion.

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.

Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.