"Condemning all women in order to help some……" — Christine de Pizan
"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 beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it."
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Christine de Pizan
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19 Quotes by Christine de Pizan
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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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Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and…
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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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