Supreme court justice Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton

“For the record, Ruth, I would have welcomed any path my life took, so long as it was with you.”

— Melissa Hill

“Her father, Nathan, worried about Kiki wanting to be a lawyer. So few women had made it. How would she support herself? He had…

— Irin Carmon

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“Schuyler grasped it tightly. She would never let go. Not in this lifetime.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint…

— Ally Spina

“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she…

— Alice Sebold

“She had been a career woman all her life. She noted there was no such thing as a career man. She had made her…

— Jeanette Winterson

“any time I spent with Ruth should be regarded as precious. War, after all, was everywhere.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.”

— Cindy Pon

“She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made…

— Ann Napolitano