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

"We should not be complacent. We should always be striving for something better."

"I don’t know how many meetings I attended in the ’60s and the ’70s, where I would say something, and nobody reacted as though I had said it. Then, 10 minutes later, a man would say the same thing, and…"

"If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers."

"If I had any talent in the world, any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva."