"How many women are there ... who because……" — Christine de Pizan
"How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?"
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Christine de Pizan
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19 Quotes by Christine de Pizan
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Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
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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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