Sor Juana Ines Quotes

#1. A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary Augusta Ward

#2. If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#3. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Octavia E. Butler

#4. privation is the cause of appetite

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#5. Dance and fall.
Like a puppet. All those years of dancing.

Samantha Shannon

#6. Little sub, you're thinking and worrying again. Time to put you to work."
Work? Scrub the bathroom or
"Kneel.

Cherise Sinclair

#7. For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#8. I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#9. 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

#10. For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#11. [The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place.

Hannah Arendt