We are so proud!" Justice Sotomayor was born and raised in this neighborhood, and her immigrant mother graduated from Hostos with a nursing degree in 1973, thus paving the way for her children's own success.
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"I'm standing here in front of my mother and my daughter, and my whole life I wanted to make my motherproud, and now I want to make my daughter proud, " she said, holding back tears.
"Girls were not encouraged to participate in sport because there were all these different type of myths: you're not going to be fertile, you're not going to get married one day, you're not going to have the so-called happy ending that would make any motherproud, " Shapinga says.