Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

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.