“[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… — 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 Image
“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 Image
The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.” — 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 people who… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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