“[My] inclination toward letters has been so vehement, so overpowering, that not even the admonitions of others–and I have suffered many–nor my own meditations and they have not been few–have been sufficient to cause me to forswear this natural impulse that God placed in me: The Lord God knows why and to what purpose.”
– Sor Juana
Explanation of how this passage reflects the author’s struggle to be both religious and intellectual.
