If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
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 bene… - 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 bene…
- Christine De Pizan
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at… - Christine De Pizan
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at…
A woman with a mind is fit for any task. - Christine De Pizan
A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
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 ar… - 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 ar…
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have cla… - Christine De Pizan
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have cla…
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. - Christine De Pizan
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to … - Christine De Pizan
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to …
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. - Christine De Pizan
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.
I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world - Christine De Pizan
I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world
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