If There Was One Decision I Would

Fight For The Things That You Care About, But Do It In A Way That Will Lead Others To Join You.

One Thing That Concerns Me Is That Today's Young Women Don't Seem To Care That We Have A Fundamental Instrument Of Government That Makes No Express Statement About The Equal Citizenship Stature Of Men And Women. They Know There Are No Closed Doors Anymore, And They May Take For Granted The Rights That They Have.

Work For The Things That You Care About.

So Now The Perception Is, Yes, Women Are Here To Stay. And When I'm Sometimes Asked When Will There Be Enough [women On The Supreme Court]? And I Say When There Are Nine, People Are Shocked. But There'd Been Nine Men, And Nobody's Ever Raised A Question About That.

My Own View, And I've Said This Many Times, Is As Long As I Can Do The Work Full Steam, I Will Stay On The Court. But When I Feel Myself Slipping, When I Slow Down In My Ability To Write Opinions With Fair Dispatch, When I Forget The Names Of Cases That I Once Could Recite At The Drop Of A Hat, I Will Know It Is Time For Me To Go.