Sonia Sotomayor Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Achievement, Challenges

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

• I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Extraordinary Person, People

  Transcript of Obama-Sotomayor announcement, edition.cnn.com. May 26, 2009.

• An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

• I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Complaining, Income

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