Christine de Pizan

Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.

— Christine de Pizan

“We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In…

— Christine de Pizan

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

— Christine de Pizan

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide…

— Christine de Pizan

If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful…

— Christine de Pizan

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into…

— Christine de Pizan

“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that…

— Christine de Pizan

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

“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

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

— Christine de Pizan

“Speak gently but look out for your rights.”

— Christine de Pizan

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is…

— Christine de Pizan

“Similarly, Medusa (or Gorgon) was celebrated for her outstanding beauty. She was a daughter of the very wealthy king Phorcys whose large…

— Christine de Pizan

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in…

— Christine de Pizan

“I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [ Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose…

— Christine de Pizan

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge…

— Christine de Pizan

“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

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would…

— Christine de Pizan

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided…

— Christine de Pizan

“... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.”

— Christine de Pizan

“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”

— Christine de Pizan

“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

“As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my…

— Christine de Pizan

“What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think…

— Christine de Pizan

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