All Christine de Pizan Quotes
- If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… Able
- 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 opposite… Absence
- Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance,… Advised
- Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by… Chases
- Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. Bodies
- Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that… All
- How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than… Among
- If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in… Betterment
- If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just… All
- Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them… Avenge
- There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a… Adam
- Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so… Criticized
- Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and… All
- Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have… All
- The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the… According
- Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. Cleverer
- I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world Body
- Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully. Heart
- The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives. Death