Juana Inés de la Cruz Quote

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.


Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (1691)


I became a nun, because although I recognized it as having many ramifications... foreign to my temperament, still, given my completely negative...

I became a nun, because although I recognized it as having many ramifications... foreign to my temperament, still, given my completely negative...

I became a nun, because although I recognized it as having many ramifications... foreign to my temperament, still, given my completely negative...

I became a nun, because although I recognized it as having many ramifications... foreign to my temperament, still, given my completely negative...