"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."

"The law, as I see it, is a tool to achieve justice."

"The state controlling a woman's body and her reproductive choices is an affront to her dignity."

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

"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."