Cristela Alonso

So when she left, I had to do all the paperwork.

I would pay the bills with my mom.

My mom didn't have a bank account.

She did everything cash.

So all the utilities, you know, the phone, the water, electricity, we would go, we would have to go to the post office.

I, a little kid, would have to order money orders for the amount that we were going to pay.

And then depending on the utility, we would have to walk because we didn't have a car.

We didn't drive.

My mom didn't drive.

So we would have to walk to the location where we could drop off the bills for the electricity, water, everything.

So I was really into I was really helping my mom with like budget household things my entire life.

Oh, absolutely.

You know, when the Mary Tyler Moore show I was obsessed with and to me, television from the 70s, it was revolutionary because it really allowed, especially if you were familiar with Mary Tyler Moore after like the Dick Van Dyke show.

What an evolution from Dick Van Dyke to the Mary Tyler Moore show.

I mean, the evolution of a woman, you know, being able to just, you know, she's the single woman.

She's she's working in an office.

It showed such a change.

And I've always felt that in my family, we're a little behind as women.

coming from a Mexican family, we're a little behind on social standards, social cues where, you know, I want to say that women got the right to vote here in like 1920.

And I want to say that in Mexico, they got the right to vote around 1950, 1954.