Judge Quotes

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.
It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.
Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart.
Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.
My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.
Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.
One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.
Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.
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