My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Dissents speak to a future age.
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.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.