If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone. . . and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.
I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.
I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on. . . Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes. . she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that.
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.