The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.