Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.

as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.

There are no bystanders in this life.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.