"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the……" — Christine de Pizan
"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, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."
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Christine de Pizan
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19 Quotes by Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan has 19 quotes on this site.
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences,…
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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…
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Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can…
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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…
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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of…
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If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served…
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If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to…
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Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire…
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There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand…
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Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess…
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Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire,…
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