The many problems resulting from social injustice have always been present – explicitly or less flagrantly – in Clarice Lispector’s life and work. “Mineirinho” and The Hour of the Star are the most eloquent examples and, for that very reason, the most cited. But it is necessary to recall the many moments in texts published in newspapers and magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, during the military dictatorship – when Clarice assumed a vehement tone of political manifestation. The young woman who graduated in law with the aim of reforming living conditions in Brazilian prisons never failed to bring to her texts the dramas arising from oppression, injustice, and inequalities.