- 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?
-- 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 something which
bears such a noble imprint?
-- The Book of the City of Ladies
- If it were customary to send maidens to school and teach them
the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully
and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
-- The Book of the City of Ladies
- ...if you seek in every way to minimize my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.”
- Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
-- Attributed
- 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.
-- The Book of the City of Ladies - Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences
and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of
women....
-- The Book of the City of Ladies
- 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 a slave, and also that he should love her
as his own flesh.
-- The Book of the City of Ladies
- ...when someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated
on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by
misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so
inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in
whom hope dwells.
-- Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc
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