“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
“We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In bravery against… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
“Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
“Similarly, Medusa (or Gorgon) was celebrated for her outstanding beauty. She was a daughter of the very wealthy king Phorcys whose large kingdom was… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
“I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [ Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose )] himself… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share
![“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f4/christine-de-pizan-13257_anti-feminist_i-f-you-seek-in-every-way-to-minimise-my_2483102.png)
![“Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c1/christine-de-pizan-13257_courage_oh-what-honour-for-the-female-sex-it-is_503425.jpg)
![“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/57a/christine-de-pizan-13257_abuse_causing-any-damage-or-harm-to-one-party_1474061.jpg)
![“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/462/christine-de-pizan-13257_behaviour_j-ust-the-sight-of-this-book-even-though_2137746.png)
![“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...) Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be5/christine-de-pizan-13257_cliches_my-lady-you-certainly-tell-me-about-wond_2807471.png)
![“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/367/christine-de-pizan-13257_books_women-complain-about-many-clerks-who-att_2803936.jpg)
![“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman who condemns a man of high understanding and dedicated study, a man who, by great…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bfc/christine-de-pizan-13257_accusations_s-ince-you-are-angry-at-me-without-reaso_2269658.png)
![“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: "No one is wise who does…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d7/christine-de-pizan-13257_ability_the-wives-of-powerful-noblemen-must-be-h_2336937.jpg)
