Christine de Pizan

At times, Pizan felt like a second class citizen inhabiting a Middle-Aged female forme. Whether or not this motivated her melancholy, further defined her femininity or both are worthy of further discussion and analysis.

So what do books, literature and the wisdom of our ascendents reveal. The reasoning is somewhat circular if left to the hermeneutics. Correlated with future outcomes and foundational for new economies of creative sustainability are indeed worth learning about.

Although the genetic difference are negligible we should not be dismissive of their existence. In the end, 'femalism' empowers more than half our civilization, it civilizes it at the same time.

Considering Christine de Pizan didn't have the privilege of knowing the legacies of knowledge and philosophical and scientific thought, her age of discovery was achieved in her lifetime in a period of time we have come to call the Renaissance.

Do you feel burnt by my words? Inspiration, not condemnation should be the result. Disqualifying opportunity based on gender alone limits the potential of half the human species. Let it burn.

We Teach Our Children to Share, Then What?Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do

Golden Rule 2.0Ah, 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

Biblical AddendumThere 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

Not Always the Case But Worth ConsideringMen who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. - Christine de Pizan

Man-Made EvilI am ... troubled and grieved when men argue that many women want to be raped and that it does not bother them at all to be raped by men

Knowledge is not a CompetitionNot 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

Arete for AllThe 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

Boo Ya!Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it.