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The popular image of Mexican woman is as somber-clad, long-suffering females praying in dimly-lit colonial churches. Church teachings have directed women to identify with the emotional suffering of the pure, passive bystander: the Virgin Mary.

— Anna Nieto-Gómez La Chicana-Legacy of Suffering and Self-Denial (1995)

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