People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

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

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.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.