In accepting her own Radcliffe Medal, Sotomayor told the audience at Harvard that she was saddened by some of the decisions the Supreme Court had made during her tenure.

“There are days that I’ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,” Sotomayor said, according to The New York Times. “There have been those days. And there’s likely to be more.”

“There are moments when I’m deeply, deeply sad,” Sotomayor said. “There are moments when, yes, even I feel desperation. We all do. But you have to own it, you have to accept it, you have to shed tears and then you have to wipe them and get up.”