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.

My own view, and I've said this many times, is as long as I can do the work full steam, I will stay on the Court. But when I feel myself slipping, when I slow down in my ability to write opinions with fair dispatch, when I forget the names of cases that I once could recite at the drop of a hat, I will know it is time for me to go.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

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.