Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.