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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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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while…
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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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I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party…
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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.
— Sophia Myles
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Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one…
— Charlie Munger
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her…
— Margaret of Valois
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
— Malcolm De Chazal
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach,…
— Emily Dickinson
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I…
— William Shakespeare
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It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months…
— Patricia Marx
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