The feminista also wanted a bicultural and bilingual child care that would validate their children's culture and perhaps ward off an inferiority comp… - Ana Castillo

The Mexic Amerindian woman has inherited the sexism instituted by dominant Mexican and U.S. society compounded by the sexism within certain oppressed indigenous cultures. In neither the creative literature nor the ethnographic documentation, did I hear her speak for herself. Only in 1992, the quincentenary of European conquest, was the world delivered the voice of one Mesoamerican woman, the Mayan Rigoberta Menchu who received the Nobel Peace Prize for her ongoing activism on behalf of her people's human rights.

Anyone who says the artists and writers they study don’t influence them, directly or unconsciously, isn’t being honest.

You chose, as I choose
to despair, or not
on a given night or day.
That despair turned inside out
you called love.