Christine de Pizan: Quotes about women

Christine de Pizan was Italian French late medieval author. Explore interesting quotes on women.
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“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 displeased them that women knew more than they did.”

Christine de Pizan book The Book of the City of Ladies

Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

Women , Men , Education

“How many women are there…who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”

Christine de Pizan book The Book of the City of Ladies

Quantes femmes est il qui usent leur vie au lien de mariage par la durte de leurs maris en plus grant penitence que se elles feussent esclaves entre les sarazins.
Part II, ch. 13, pp. 118-19.
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (c. 1405)
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

Women , Marriage , Suffering

“Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?”

Christine de Pizan

Source: Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love

Women , Imagination