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Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the pa...
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I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of th...
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I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, b...
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I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public ser...
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Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurab...
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If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with...
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I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's ser...
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I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others d...
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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and natio...
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So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an...
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My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas wit...
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
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Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by fl...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shape...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Diabetes taught me discipline.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me abo...
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented...
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I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjo...
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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiv...
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I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there ...
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In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sen...
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I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of th...
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I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic o...
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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest univer...
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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding wer...
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I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and real...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Ya...
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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of...
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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also spe...
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I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promotin...
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You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirma...
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Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in...
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We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don&#...
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I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not ...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - altho...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining ...
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It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what th...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not...
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I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decid...
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Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want he...
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Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to ...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I ca...
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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations....
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I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was co...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or t...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally ...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive l...
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I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using camer...
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You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedl...
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I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, ...
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Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes its...
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Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land&#...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
SONIA JOHNSON

You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.
SONIA RUMZI

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.
SONIA RUMZI

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small grou...
SONIA JOHNSON

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
SONIA JOHNSON

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very au...
SONIA JOHNSON How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear ...
SONIA RYKIEL Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
SONIA GANDHI

As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on...
SONIA JOHNSON What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, ...
SONIA TAITZ

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious ...
SONIA JOHNSON I have the impression that the women around me are like me - smaller, taller, fatter, thinner - but ...
SONIA RYKIEL [It's felt that intuitive awareness will only grow in the new century.] I think it's going to becom...
SONIA CHOQUETTE French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew...
SONIA RYKIEL

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing somet...
SONIA JOHNSON

In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, b...
SONIA JOHNSON

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the
SONIA JOHNSON

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
SONIA JOHNSON

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
SONIA JOHNSON You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's...
SONIA RYKIEL Your smile is your best makeup.
SONIA MANZOOR I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very...
SONIA RYKIEL At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my ho...
SONIA RYKIEL As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fre...
SONIA RYKIEL

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on th...
SONIA JOHNSON There I am with my walker. I can't maneuver from here to there without it.
SONIA GOLDSTEIN

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.
SONIA JOHNSON

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't...
SONIA JOHNSON We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do t...
SONIA MARCIANO No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heav...
SONIA SANCHEZ The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path...
SONIA GANDHI I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,
SONIA GANDHI The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of t...
SONIA GANDHI The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in ...
SONIA GANDHI I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to ...
SONIA GANDHI My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.
SONIA GANDHI They should be encouraged to do better as they are our strength. But they must work for the betterme...
SONIA GANDHI Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will wo...
SONIA GANDHI The Indian army is confronted with daunting challenges as it fights terrorism. Even so I want to urg...
SONIA GANDHI For the last two days, some people in the country were trying to create an impression that parliamen...
SONIA GANDHI New regulations would be a disaster at this point. Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the...
SONIA ARRISON It's the society we live in, that we're so open and trusting. We make the assumption that everything...
SONIA ARRISON It shows their lack of understanding of technology. It's willful ignorance. They're complete hypocri...
SONIA ARRISON If Yahoo isn't doing business in China, someone else will. It's putting American businesses at a dis...
SONIA ARRISON Economics matters a great deal, and American companies are often torn when they consider their actio...
SONIA ARRISON The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays i...
SONIA GANDHI An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources ... to improve the lives o...
SONIA GANDHI Sonia is a very private person; yet, she is enigmatic. I wrote this book in 2003, when Sonia's polit...
SONIA GANDHI I belong to a political family.
SONIA GANDHI The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr...
SONIA GANDHI People use their intuition with things they care about. Many women are most intuitive with their re...
SONIA CHOQUETTE You haven't been in the darkness yet, have you? When I am gone you will see the ugly darkness. Becau...
SONIA MANZOOR For the last two days, some people have been trying to create an atmosphere as if the Government and...
SONIA GANDHI

What we resist persists.
SONIA JOHNSON

Never mistrust, unless given a reason.
SONIA RUMZI First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Th...
SONIA RYKIEL

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we...
SONIA RUMZI

Suffering teaches joy.
SONIA RUMZI It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: livi...
SONIA GANDHI A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. So...
SONIA RYKIEL Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.
SONIA SANCHEZ When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to ...
SONIA LEVITIN

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.
SONIA RUMZI I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,&#...
SONIA RYKIEL

God Hates divorce."
"He hates cruelty even more."
Caring For Eleanor
SONIA RUMZI My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
SONIA RYKIEL

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up ...
SONIA JOHNSON

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.
SONIA RUMZI Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the ...
SONIA RYKIEL

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the sa...
SONIA RUMZI The key to my collections is sensuality.
SONIA RYKIEL I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm dif...
SONIA RYKIEL Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.
SONIA RYKIEL My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes c...
SONIA RYKIEL I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman h...
SONIA RYKIEL I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much mor...
SONIA RYKIEL I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that ...
SONIA RYKIEL I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted a...
SONIA RYKIEL I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So ...
SONIA RYKIEL I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
SONIA RYKIEL Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.
SONIA RYKIEL To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.
SONIA RYKIEL What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that int...
SONIA RYKIEL It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.
SONIA RYKIEL My breakfast is very important.
SONIA RYKIEL I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two ...
SONIA RYKIEL People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside o...
SONIA RYKIEL I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.
SONIA RYKIEL Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge a...
SONIA RYKIEL I want my child's money and I want the money for all of those other disabled kids,
SONIA BLACK [It's felt that intuitive awareness will only grow in the new century.] I
think it's going to ...
SONIA CHOQUETTE I knew Terry never stays out all night.
SONIA MACK I was up all night. I had just lay down and closed my eyes.
SONIA MACK If there are long-term needs, then those long-term needs should be filled with long-term workers.
SONIA RAMIREZ

Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.
SONIA RUMZI I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
SONIA ESTRADA Stress has become more commonplace and accepted in our everyday lives. Many studies show the negativ...
SONIA J. LUPIEN

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

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