Maria Rita Kehl, ORB (born December 10, 1951) is a Brazilian psychoanalyst, journalist, poet, essayist, cronista and literary critic.

[6] In 2012, she was invited to participate in the National Truth Commission,[7] which was installed on May 16 to investigate human rights violations which had occurred in Brazil between September 18, 1946 and October 5, 1988.

I have been writing a fortnightly column in Caderno 2 of the daily O Estado de S. Paulo since February 2010, in which I published the article "Dois Pesos..." on October 2 of the same year.

[8] As well as refuting the arguments of some of the emails circulating on the internet with ironies such as "where did the real humble people end up who the cordial bosses liked so much, capable of working well beyond the statutory eight hours for a pittance?"

[8] She ends the article by writing that "when, for the first time, those without citizenship have won the minimum rights that they want to preserve through democracy, some of the citizens who consider themselves class A come out to disqualify the seriousness of their votes".