Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

You got to be ready for everything in life

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

It hurts because it mattered.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.