Sor Juana Quotes & Sayings

For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence. — Octavio Paz

privation is the cause of appetite — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz