[3] After high school, Sánchez continuously helped with her father's practice until she began to focus on the Cuban Revolution alongside Fidel Castro.

Castro received help from Argentinian Che Guevara as well as Celia Sánchez, Frank País, and the Cuban people.

[7] With her hard work within the movement, she became the first woman to join the guerilla and eventually become a part of the rebel army's general staff.

[9] During the mid to late 1960s, René Vallejo, Castro's physician since 1958,[10] and Sanchez became the Cuban leader's two closest companions.

[13] Celia Sánchez died of lung cancer on 11 January 1980 during a time of political and economic unrest; her legacy is embedded in the Cuban national identity.

The Celia Sánchez Memorial in Manzanillo also honors her name, and her face appears in the watermark on Cuban peso banknotes.

Cuba continues to honor Sánchez achievements, ten years after her death, they created a coin with the value of 10 pesos.

[7] Celia Sánchez paved the way for the idealism for Cuba's new woman by showing women's capabilities in the leadership, care taking and physical labor.

[7] Celia Sánchez revealed to the Cuban society that women are capable of balancing physical labor with care taking, strength with femininity and leadership with modesty which was a nuance during a time of gender division.