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"Just like a woman who has given birth forgets the pain and labor as soon as she hears her child cry, you will forget the hard work when you hear the voices of your books."
Nature to Christine.

"... women know less ... because they do not encounter do many different things but stay in their houses ... and there is nothing that teaches so much to a reasonable creature as the exercise and experience of many different things."
Lady Reason to Christine.

(from A Letter to Eustache Morel)
"Do not despise my feminine understanding, even if I have my failings; rather take into account the great love I have for knowledge, as I make known to you."

"May the long study that has made me pour over your volumes, through which we came to know each other, now avail me."
~ Christine's translation (into French) of Dante's appeal to Virgil for help. From: The Path of Long Study

"... The wise man listens gladly to everyone and learns gladly from each, and reads gladly all kinds of teachings..."
(From The Sybyl of Cumae)

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