When Sonia Sotomayor was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 8, she realized that if she was to be able to function in a world in which the adults around her were unreliable, she would have to learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed every day.That determination and focus would lead her to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton, law school at Yale, and eventually to the Supreme Court of the United States as the first Hispanic and third woman member.
Born in New York into a large Puerto Rican family, she was surrounded by a large and loving family. But her father was alcoholic and her mother's emotional response kept their family in turmoil until her father died when she was 9. The family was very poor, living in housing projects in the Bronx. Her mother stressed education as the way to improve their lives and give them the skills they needed to make a better life.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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