Sonia Quotes

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

What we resist persists.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.

How to stop Messi? You need to bring a shotgun, pam-pam and that's it.

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.

It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

I love flinging everything I buy behind me onto the back-seat of the car: it's always full of packages when I travel, when I leap in my car!

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

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

I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

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

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

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.

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

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

I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

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.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.