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If I’d had another mother, even a Latina mother, who wanted to uproot us from Union City, all of that cultural nuance would have been lost.

— Alicia Menendez

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I know the enormous joy of feeling that your life has been dedicated to helping others, and also the enormous frustration of public life.

But the truth is that without my gringa mother, I might not be as proud to be Latina as I am today.

Be ambitious, be wildly ambitious, because if you constantly run up against people who are telling you ‘no,’ ambition is the only thing that motors you through.

You can’t have a private life as an elected official. It’s not a family-friendly institution.

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