Richard L. Kagan > Quotes

“… the evidence suggests that Lucrecia purposefully portrayed herself as an innocent, unlettered woman, first to enhance her prophetic persona and then, after her arrest, as part of her defense.”
― Richard L Kagan, Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain

“It is the men who transcribed the dreams who are at fault, because they are men and I am only a woman whom they should have warned.”
― Richard L Kagan, Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain