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Top 20 Christine de Pizan Quotes (2025 Update)

Christine de Pizan Quote: “A woman with a mind is fit for any task.”

1. “A woman with a mind is fit for any task.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.”

2. “Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.”

3. “Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart’s content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.”

4. “Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart’s content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.”

5. “Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”

6. “Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Speak gently but look out for your rights.”

8. “Speak gently but look out for your rights.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.”

11. “Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.”

12. “Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.”

13. “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

Christine de Pizan Quote: “I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world.”

14. “I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is – and I can say this honestly – that I love learning and a solitary life.”

15. “I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is – and I can say this honestly – that I love learning and a solitary life.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Christine de Pizan Quote: “For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.”

17. “For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.”

18. “Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

19. “These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.”

20. “By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “There is quite often argument and discord, as much in outlook as in conversation, between old people and young ones, to the point that they can hardly stand each other, as though they were members of two different species.”

21. “There is quite often argument and discord, as much in outlook as in conversation, between old people and young ones, to the point that they can hardly stand each other, as though they were members of two different species.”

— Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan Quote: “De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.”

22. “De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.”

— Christine de Pizan

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