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I was a proponent of the ERA.
Dissents speak to a future age.
I'm not very good at promotion.
An operatic voice is like no other.
Work for the things that you care about.
I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision.
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
I think our system is being polluted by money.
There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.
Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.
I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.
The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.