Sonia Sotomayor Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Real, Inspiration

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.178, Vintage

• My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Book, Done

  Source: eldiariony.com

• One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: eldiariony.com

• I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, World, Beloved

  Source: eldiariony.com

• Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Reading, Childhood

  Source: www.achievement.org

• If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Writing, People

• I had many reasons for writing this book but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. And my hope is that when they finish reading the book, that they will come away with a renewed sense of pride in our culture and in who we are. We get a lot of strength from that [culture and identity] and we should be proud of it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

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