Monique

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

“What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

“We do many things carelessly or unwillingly, but nothing studiously unless we are willing and apply ourselves.”
― Peter Abelard

“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan