Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing – to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.
I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.
In sum, the Court’s conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court’s own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
Dissents speak to a future age.
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.
You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.