Quote by Rosario Castellanos: “Change your life or change your mirror.”

If you don't like what you see in your reflection — who you are, how you live, what you've become — you have two options: actually change yourself, or simply find a way to see yourself differently. Castellanos is saying only one of these is real courage.

Castellanos wrote during the tumultuous year of 1968, when student movements across Mexico were demanding political reform and the government responded with the Tlatelolco massacre in October. Her work of this period combined dark wit with profound political urgency as she watched Mexico's elite resist any genuine transformation.

Mexican poet, novelist, and diplomat who used literature to confront the racial and gender hierarchies of mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Her novels Balún Canán and Oficio de Tinieblas drew on indigenous Mayan experience and the violence of colonial social structures.