Judy Sheindlin

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.