“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 to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.”
![“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 slandering [women in general]?” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ff/christine-de-pizan-13257_deserve_does-a-rake-deserve-to-possess-anything_259776.jpg)
![“Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c1/christine-de-pizan-13257_courage_oh-what-honour-for-the-female-sex-it-is_503425.jpg)
