Maria Covarrubias Research Paper

We all have a story that is untold. One that not many people are not aware of. The story that made you who you are today or who you will become in the future. As I am listening to Maria Covarrubias, I can see the pain in her eyes as she recounts her story. The pain that I was not aware of until now. My mother came to the United States of America at a very young age. She came here to fulfill her dreams of coming to California “El Norte” for a better future. However, not all things turned out like she wanted. She faced many difficult situations and life challenges which molded her into the woman she is today.
How has being a female shaped your life? Maria Guadalupe Covarrubias was born in 1957 in a house in Michoacán, Mexico. Even though she did not have a lot, her family was not poor. She is the second oldest amongst of all her siblings. There is 12 in total; 4 woman and 8 boys. Maria was a very stubborn little girl, but she loved to be around her father. She recalls saying “I used to hate …show more content…
She was 21 years of age when she came to California, it was the year 1974. The women’s movement was really making a difference by now and they were making wonderful things happen here in the United States. She ends up in Fresno, California with many goals in mind. As she recounts the story of how she decided to pursue her dreams; she reminds me of what Anna Nieto-Gomez said when the Chicana Women’s group discovered that the newspaper published an article about them. She said: “It re-affirmed and validated that you’re not a strange, alien person, that what you’re doing is not only normal, but a part of your history” (The first and second waves of Feminism in the U.S. p.546). She decided that she would leave her country and come to a new one to start a whole new life. A life where there were many opportunities for immigrants, she thought. She was creating history and she did not even realize