Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?