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    Christine de Pizan
    “[W]hen 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.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc
    tags: belief, endurance, hatred, hope, injustice, life, misfortune, opposition, salvation, strength
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    Christine de Pizan
    “[I]f you seek in every way to minimise 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.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose
    tags: attacks, beliefs, clichés, convictions, dignity, double-standards, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, insults, men, misogyny, preconceptions, prejudice, repartee, self-esteem, self-importance, slander, stereotypes, wit, women
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    Christine de Pizan
    “If it were customary to send little girls 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.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
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    Christine de Pizan
    “The foolish rush to end their lives.
    Only the steadfast soul survives.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, Lyric Poetry (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)
    tags: courage, death, endurance, life, steadfastness, strength, suicide
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    Christine de Pizan
    “The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
    tags: clichés, conduct, double-standards, empowerment, equality, gender, hypocrisy, men, misogyny, morality, perception, prejudice, social-norms, superiority, virtue, women
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    Christine de Pizan
    “Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.”
    ― Christine de Pizan
    tags: gender-stereotypes, men-and-women
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    Christine de Pizan
    “If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.”
    ― Christine de Pizan
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