Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.