“My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was im...” — Hilda Solis Quote

“My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.”

“My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.”

“No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.”

“Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.”

“I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.”

“My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!”