Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith | 
Whenever she couldn' t get what she had planned she cut a lock and said: "Useless to adorn a head lacking the most beautiful ornament: knowledge"
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Whenever she couldn' t get what she had planned she cut a lock and said: "Useless to adorn a head lacking the most beautiful ornament: knowledge"
pickA Nobel prize for Literature writing the biography of a woman who would easily have deserved it. A woman who lived in the XVII New Spain. A scholar in a time when a woman was definitely not permitted to be, who knew the seduction of love and faith and expressed both in sublime poetry. A journey in Time as Paz said: "A Mexican of the XX century reads this gorgeous enigma of a nun of the XVII New Spain"
