Quotes by : Christine de Pizan

How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare....

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such....

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that....

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.....

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise,....

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the....

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact,....

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate....