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

"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."

"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."

"I'm still a work in progress."

"I was not a person who was born with any great talent. I worked very hard."