Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.