"I’m sometimes asked, ‘When will there be enough women on the court?’ And my answer is, ‘When there are nine.’"

"I was fortunate to be alive and a lawyer in the late 1960s when the women's rights movement was just beginning."

"When I'm sometimes asked, 'When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?' and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody ever raised a question abo…"

"My dear spouse, Marty, was a truly extraordinary person. Of all the people I have known, he was the only one who was not in the least bit bothered by the success of his wife."

"A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage."