I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. Juana Inés de la Cruz More Quotes by Juana Inés de la Cruz More Quotes From Juana Inés de la Cruz Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die. Juana Inés de la Cruz soul evil men Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel. Juana Inés de la Cruz vessel size receiving I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me. Juana Inés de la Cruz pens imagine walks One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper. Juana Inés de la Cruz supper wells cooking As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance. Juana Inés de la Cruz unions distance love But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more. Juana Inés de la Cruz kitchen cooking philosophy O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? Juana Inés de la Cruz morality pay religion Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked. Juana Inés de la Cruz known ifs In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. Juana Inés de la Cruz vanity opinion I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read. Juana Inés de la Cruz girl mother school In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear. Juana Inés de la Cruz disaster treasure loss I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! Juana Inés de la Cruz poor-me escaping poor And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more. Juana Inés de la Cruz cooking secret food Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? Juana Inés de la Cruz sight forever night One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius. Juana Inés de la Cruz handsome genius reason Rare is he who will concede genius. Juana Inés de la Cruz genius ... privation is the source of appetite. Juana Inés de la Cruz appetite source The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin? Juana Inés de la Cruz pain evil pay
