Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.