I have feared, at times, that my self-reliance, even more than my prominence, might prove hard for any man to take. - Sonia Sotomayor

Few aspects of my work in the DA’s Office were more rewarding than to see what I had learned in childhood among the Latinos of the Bronx prove to be as relevant to my success as Ivy League schooling was.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.

In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women.