Quote by Rosario Castellanos: “The revolution will be feminist or it will not be.”

Any political transformation that claims to liberate people but ignores the specific oppression of women is incomplete and fraudulent. True revolution must include the equality of women, or it simply replaces one form of domination with another.

Castellanos worked as an advocate for indigenous rights in Chiapas in the early 1950s, witnessing the intersection of class, race, and gender oppression in rural Mexico. Latin American leftist movements of this era largely sidelined women's issues, subordinating gender equality to class struggle.

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.