Juana Ines De La Cruz Quotes
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 ...
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