"Hombres necios que acusáis A la mujer, sin razón, Sin ver que sois la ocasión De lo mismo que culpáis: Si con ansia sin igual Solicitáis su desdén ¿Por qué queréis que obren bien, Si las incitáis al mal?"

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You foolish men, who accuse Women without good reason, You are the cause of what you blame, Yours the guilt you deny. If you seek the love of women to win With ardor beyond compare, Why require them to be good, When 'tis you who urge their sin? — fragment from "Letra de Hombres Necios Que Acusáis", translated from the Spanish by Muriel Kittel in The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems (1986)