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Men Quotes by 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 learn as thoroughly…
- Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.
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