Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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.
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.
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.
If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
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.
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.
America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president.
