Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may phi…

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

... privation is the source of appetite.

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and …

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

- Juana Inés De La Cruz

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

- Juana Inés De La Cruz