The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

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's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.

I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.

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

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

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.