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 CruzI walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
Juana Inés de la CruzI believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
Juana Inés de la CruzBut, 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