I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.