"¡Qué bien se ve que eran Sabios en confesarse rendidos, que es triunfo el obedecer de la razón el dominio!"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
FeministsPoets from MexicoPlaywrights from MexicoWomen authors from MexicoEnvironmentalists from Mexico
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
How clear it is they were wise, when they conceded their defeat, for it is an achievement to have bowed to the supremacy of reason! — "Villancico a Catarina," translated from the Spanish by Kate Flores in The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems (1986)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Juana Inés de la Cruz
22 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Juana Inés de la Cruz →
Related Quotes
"Yo no estimo tesoros ni riquezas; y así, siempre me causa más contento poner riquezas en mi pensamiento que no mi pen…"
"Hombres necios que acusáis A la mujer, sin razón, Sin ver que sois la ocasión De lo mismo que culpáis: Si con ansia s…"
"¿Cuál mayor culpa ha tenido En una pasión errada: La que cae de rogada, O el que ruega de caído? ¿O cuál es más de cu…"
"No se avergüenzan los Sabios de mirarse convencidos; porque saben, como Sabios, que su saber es finito."
"lady of mine and of all beloved women distant and hallucinated magician of verse, stranger to time, barefoot among th…"
"Probably the first official feminist in Mexican history was Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, who lived from 1648 to 1695. D…"
"Just a few years ago, one could easily identify the women in all of Latin America who stood out in literature. Names …"
"I don't pretend to be anyone's voice. I have been very lucky to be published in Europe, and I say lucky because there…"
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was the first feminist on this continent"
"¿En perseguirme, mundo, qué interesas? ¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no…"