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....

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But....

We've never heardAbout a marvel quite so great,For all the heroes who have livedIn history can't measure....

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all....

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that....

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have....

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness....