Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 1648 – 1695
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648 – 1695) was a Mexican philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Feminism and Early Modern Philosophy.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a Mexican Hieronymite nun and the foremost writer of the Spanish Baroque. Self-taught and celebrated as a child prodigy, she chose the convent over marriage in order to pursue learning. Her cell at the Convent of San Jeronimo housed one of the largest libraries in the New World, and from it issued an extraordinary body of poetry, plays, and prose. Her Reply to Sor Filotea is a powerful defense of women's right to study and write, and her satirical poem Hombres Necios anticipates many themes of modern feminist criticism. She died nursing her sisters during a plague.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Mexican
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Feminism, Early Modern Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz:
“I do not study in order to know more, but to ignore less.”
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Attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz:
“These foolish men accuse women without reason, not seeing that they themselves are the cause of what they accuse.”
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Attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz:
“One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.”
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Attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz:
“If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written more.”
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Attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz:
“I owe no obligation to my sex, and I owe nothing to my body.”
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by topic
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- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a Mexican philosopher of the Modern era.
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- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a Mexican Hieronymite nun and the foremost writer of the Spanish Baroque.
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