When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.
I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.
It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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.
