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I'm a woman who likes to be courted - strongly.

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.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.