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….

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'….

In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation w….

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are..

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no ….

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded..

I think our system is being polluted by money..

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution..

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous..

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in ang….

So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say….

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

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, pilotin….

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell whic….

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well repr….

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction..

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

Dissents speak to a future age..

In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be te….

Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, i….

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