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Christine de Pizan has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would…
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Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into…
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Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that…
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Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide…
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Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
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Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is…
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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in…
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If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful…
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If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they…
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Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge…
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There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his…
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Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because…
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but…
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Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal…
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The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
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You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what…
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures…
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a…
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make…
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that…
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