We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.Maya Angelou
“One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.”
Nun, poet and scholar · 1648 – 1695
Mexican Hieronymite nun, poet and scholar of the colonial Baroque, famed for the philosophical poem 'Primero sueño' and her bold defence of women's right to learn in the Reply to Sor Filotea. She is celebrated as the first great poet of the Americas.
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