The Life Experiences That Made Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Badass She Is Today

On the day she was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice by President Obama and now-President Joe Biden, Sotomayor said in an interview with NPR that her emotions were so strong she had to put them aside to survive. "The moment they smiled ... I had an out-of-body experience. It was as if my emotions were so big that if I continued to let them exist in my body, I would stop functioning."