A brilliant female Latinx author by the name of Isabel Allende was once famously asked to speak about her legacy at a conference in Europe in front of thousands of listeners. She joked that “legacy” was truly only a “man’s word.” I can’t type the exact word she used here unfortunately, though it was rather hilarious albeit slightly inappropriate for this medium. Yet what she said struck a chord with me. Was legacy truly a word meant only for men? And what, then, does it mean to us modern women—many of us trying to “do it all”?
