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

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.