Juana Inés de la Cruz Quotes

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I became a nun, because although I recognized it as having many ramifications... foreign to my temperament, still, given my completely negative feelings about marriage, it was the least disproportionate and most fitting thing I could do.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Foolish men who accuse a woman mindlessly—
you cannot even see you cause what you abuse.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

This thing you see, a bright-colored deceit, displaying all the many charms of art, with false syllogisms of tint and hue is a cunning deception of the eye... a fruitless enterprise, a great mistake, a decrepit frenzy, and rightly viewed, a corpse, some dust, a shadow, mere nothingness.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Has anyone ever seen a stranger moral fervor? You who dirty the mirror cry that it isn't clean.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Born: November 12, 1651

Died: April 17, 1695 (aged 43)

Bio: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H., was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as "The Tenth Muse.

Known for:

Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz
Poems, protest, and a dream
A Sor Juana Anthology
The Divine Narcissus
Sor Juana's dream

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