Quotes by Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

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Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all femin — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of s — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true t — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would l — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person l — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves. — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to the — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies