Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel. — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
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… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details:… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Critics: In your sight no woman can win: keep you out, and she's too tight; she's too loose if you get in.” — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear. — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share
