Celina Baez Sotomayor, the mother of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, died on Sunday at 94 of complications from cancer, according to a family friend.
"I have often said that I am all I am because of her, and I am only half the woman she is," Sotomayor once said about her mother, who was orphaned at age 9 and raised by her older sister.Celina and Juan Sotomayor moved from Puerto Rico during World War II and later brought up Sotomayor and her brother in a Bronx housing project. When Juan Sotomayor -- a factory worker with a third-grade education -- died, Sotomayor's mother was left to raise her children alone.
In her memoir,"My Beloved World," Justice Sotomayor said that while her mother was at times"tortured by lack of confidence in her own mental ability," she would respond by studying until late in the night. She called her mother's efforts an example that"a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.""It was something I would remember often in the years ahead, whenever faced with fears that I wasn't smart enough to succeed," she wrote.
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