Elizabeth Martinez on Juana Inés de la Cruz

“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz left behind many writings and, above all, inspiration for all women, for all time.”

“The story of feminist Latinas spreads across centuries and is rich in heroines who demolish the stereotype of the "passive Latin woman." The landmarks are numerous in Mexico, from the openly feminist seventeenth-century intellectual Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz, a nun, to the first feminist congress of 1911 and the suffrage movement of the 1930s.”