"I think that the government should not be involved in making choices for women. It's a very personal decision, and it should be up to the individual to decide what's best for them, not the government.…"

"I often said that if I had any talent in the world, it would be as an opera diva. But my voice is not up to it."

"My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade."

"I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow."

"I would like to be remembered as someone who used her talent for the reconstruction of society, a reconstructor of society to make it a little better than she found it."