Quote by Armonía Somers: “A woman alone in a room is the most dangerous thing there is.”

A woman left alone with her own thoughts, without social performance or the management of others, becomes someone no one can fully control or predict. This is a sardonic observation about why patriarchal societies work so hard to keep women occupied, supervised, and surrounded.

Somers published La mujer desnuda in 1950, a novel so transgressive it damaged her teaching career and was largely suppressed by Uruguayan literary institutions. Uruguay was politically progressive by regional standards but deeply socially conservative, and Somers's fiction violated taboos around women's bodies, sexuality, and autonomy with complete disregard for consequence.

Uruguayan novelist and educator whose surrealist and unsettling fiction challenged the conservatism of mid-twentieth-century Uruguayan society. Her 1950 novel La mujer desnuda was one of the most transgressive works of Latin American fiction written by a woman in its era.