Christine de Pizan (Author) Motivated Sadness I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world
Christine de Pizan (Author) To hoard or not to hoard ... it is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility
Christine de Pizan (Author) Don't Ignore Half your Population If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts
Christine de Pizan (Author) What's the point? Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
Christine de Pizan (Author) The hot and cold of ignorance 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
Christine de Pizan (Author) 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 not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the
Christine de Pizan (Author) Golden Rule 2.0 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
Christine de Pizan (Author) Biblical Addendum 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 his feet like
Christine de Pizan (Author) Not always the case but worth considering Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.
Christine de Pizan (Author) The Left Handed Fair Treatment Fallacy Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments
Christine de Pizan (Author) Man-made Evil I 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 even when they verbally
Christine de Pizan (Author) Knowledge is not a Competition 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 claimed this because it
Christine de Pizan (Author) Arete for All 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 the sex, but in the
Christine de Pizan (Author) 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. I replied that it was
