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.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

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

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.