--- title: "1 Poet Wrote Quotes By Karen Essex" description: "1 Poet Wrote quotes by Karen Essex. Plus more from Karen Essex and more Poet Wrote sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/karen-essex-15167_feminism_it-is-a-quote-from-mihri-hatun-a-lady-po_2269045.jpg" --- > [“it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/it-is-a-quote-from-mihri-hatun-a-lady-poet-who-wrote-many-centuries/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/karen-essex-15167_feminism_it-is-a-quote-from-mihri-hatun-a-lady-po_2269045.jpg) ## More by Karen Essex > [“Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/can-you-not-see-that-we-still-might-win-we-lost-a-battle-not-a-war/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/all-my-life-i-have-known-fear-but-i-have-acted-in-spite-of-it-i-urge/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/you-cannot-hide-from-the-truth-mina-anytime-you-try-to-argue-with-the/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/everyone-has-a-secret-life-perhaps-yours-is-merely-a-gossamer-web-of/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/one-hundred-copies-of-these-poems-you-do-not-even-like-asked-the/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/the-merciful-man-is-rarely-victorious-one-s-enemies-are-like-snakes/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [I am more human than rational.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/i-am-more-human-than-rational/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“One must either rule side by side or be subdued entirely.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/one-must-either-rule-side-by-side-or-be-subdued-entirely/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/think-about-it-for-the-sake-of-fame-men-will-risk-great-dangers-they/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/simplicity-he-is-as-simple-as-a-spider-s-web/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“The people call it a miracle; the scientists call it invention. But the invention is miraculous, is it not?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/the-people-call-it-a-miracle-the-scientists-call-it-invention-but-the/) [karen essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/i-am-telling-you-that-the-child-will-not-out-live-the-buildings-do/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“...the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/the-world-we-learned-as-children-to-fear-the-milieu-of-goblins-ghosts/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they were invincible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/together-they-were-greater-than-either-them-could-possibly-be-apart/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) > [“Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be,” he invoked.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-essex/mother-astarte-who-creates-and-destroys-kybele-goddess-of-all-that-is/) [Karen Essex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-essex/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet-wrote/karen-essex/#itemlist", "name": "1 Poet Wrote Quotes By Karen Essex", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 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