She got married at the age of sixteen to journalist Alaor José Gomes,[1] who worked in the office of their father, then governor, and the couple had three daughters.
[2] In 1986, Quadros ran for constituent federal deputy, but she had problems with her candidacy, which forced her to join the Social Christian Party after her membership records disappeared.
[3] After her election in 1986, shortly before her inauguration, she left the PSC and joined the PTB (Brazilian Labor Party) and served until 1991.
[3] In 1987, she spoke in the Chamber of Deputies, defending parliamentarism and the popular vote for the election of Presidents of the Republic and members of the National Congress.
In the second half of that same year, Leonel Júlio asked for the annulment of Tutu Quadros' mandate, saying that because she was an American naturalized, she could not continue in the Brazilian parliament.