Christine de Pisan quote: "I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be"

This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it ...
CHRISTINE DE PISAN

Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.
CHRISTINE DE PISAN

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradi...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can p...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imag...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would h...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. B...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women,...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for su...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody da...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! ...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall ...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise,...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught t...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She i...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You shou...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say t...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened th...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the low...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength an...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

We think it is feasible that wind will supply 6 percent of electricity by 2020.
CHRISTINE REAL DE AZUA

My camping days are over, but I might consider glamping.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and al...
CHRISTINE MILNE

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generall...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were runnin...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't se...
CHRISTINE WARREN

Whether in business or in life, you can be civil and get ahead. Whatever your age or circumst...
CHRISTINE PORATH

I directly asked respondents why they behaved uncivilly.More than half claimed it was because they a...
CHRISTINE PORATH

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had fa...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a cro...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.
CHRISTINE WARREN

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who a...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryon...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy
CHRISTINE KEELER

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with in...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTINE BOVEE

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I t...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - ...
CHRISTINE LAKIN

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Y...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend ...
CHRISTINE TSAI

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family....
CHRISTINE BARANSKI

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist...
CHRISTINE QUINN

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperb...
CHRISTINE QUINN

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
CHRISTINE KEELER

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are t...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.
CHRISTINE LAHTI

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy o...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my ins...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they ...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this i...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions b...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as wel...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. T...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have wo...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
CHRISTINE PELOSI

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a la...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you....
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
CHRISTINE KEELER

I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

I can't stand the club scene.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she ...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was l...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched...
CHRISTINE LAKIN

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbor...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the side...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect p...
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginni...
CHRISTINE LAHTI

Savannah handed the glass to Gregori, her eyes anxious. Gary touched his neck. He felt a little dizz...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million mo...
CHRISTINE LAHTI

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was ...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all ...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hour...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homewo...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

Bachelor parties are for the married guys.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was ...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assau...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I feel badly for those girls who have to be so waif thin, doing those catwalks all the time because,...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
CHRISTINE BARANSKI

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of m...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if you...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's form...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a ...
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE

My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is wh...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,&#...
CHRISTINE LAKIN

I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape...
CHRISTINE STOCKTON

Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about...
CHRISTINE STOCKTON

...but you have to know when you close those doors, you don't leave anything for the other person.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and n...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student l...
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL

Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fal...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, r...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to upho...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
CHRISTINE KEELER

Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a tel...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. ...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who a...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the w...
CHRISTINE COLLANGE

The race went well but the start was difficult. The gun isn't loud enough.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I don't know who set the schedule but it is negative for good results.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I'm very disappointed. I really don't know what happened, ... Basically on the first or second strid...
CHRISTINE ARRON

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.
CHRISTINE ARRON

It was not bad. I had to fight back after the bad start.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I know the Golden League has existed for many years now but this is the year when I can do it,
CHRISTINE ARRON

Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Since obtaining a greater understanding of quantum physics, I am beginning to draw conclusions about...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing ou...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by so...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

What is important to remember is that people are resilient, and people do have the ability to build ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs lik...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

The end is here, but this is what we're here for -- the next eight games. We're pumping ourselves up...
CHRISTINE ALFORD

At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was ...
CHRISTINE ALFORD

Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.
CHRISTINE ALFORD

We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been...
CHRISTINE ALFORD

We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

If the volume is up to over 100 decibels, even one and a half or two hours of use can cause damage.
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear pro...
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person ...
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between a...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

The risk of sudden cardiac death during an episode of moderate to vigorous exertion in this large gr...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

In our study, the women who were not previously exercising but then did what was out of the ordinary...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

To our knowledge, this analysis is the first to assess both the transient and long-term risk of sudd...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death d...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passio...
CHRISTINE QUINN

My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer th...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its h...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that i...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
CHRISTINE COMAFORD

Costs are definitely coming down drastically. A lot of good things have happened. Other states are g...
CHRISTINE BAKER

It gives you a little glimpse as to whether you have a low risk for cardiac problems or a high risk.
CHRISTINE MCKELVIE

I'm a person of faith, [but] I don't carry it on my sleeve.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

"How can you be so sure that you're actually awake now, and that your dream is not the reality?
MJ CHRISTINE

3D gives you an excuse to wear shades while watching movies.
MJ CHRISTINE

"I think of the future thinking of the past." (Dec. 25, 1994)
MJ CHRISTINE

There are times we like to be alone. There are also times we're alone and not liking it.
MJ CHRISTINE

You don't know what you got til someone took it away.
MJ CHRISTINE

There should be a 'How to sleep at night' and 'How to wake up in the morning' courses for insomniacs...
MJ CHRISTINE

Melinda was our answer to Danielle. She is the hardest worker physically that I have ever seen. She ...
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

What hurts the most is when someone made you feel special yesterday, but made you feel that you are ...
MJ CHRISTINE

I think when the time you meet your true love.. your other half.. that's the time both of you will d...
MJ CHRISTINE

Those who laugh and find amusement in sarcasm are mean, not the one who is sarcastic.
MJ CHRISTINE

"The difference about the past and future: The past knows 'nothing' about the future, but the future...
MJ CHRISTINE

I will not stop writing and composing, but I will not stress myself with it either.
MJ CHRISTINE

We all have our own weirdness that makes us unique.
MJ CHRISTINE

Time flies slowly when you're hungry..
MJ CHRISTINE

Thoughts aren't supposed to be organized. It's random.
MJ CHRISTINE

I wonder why the word 'fat' is offensive to some.It's just a word. Just think of it as 'huggable'. B...
MJ CHRISTINE

I wonder which one's worse.. "You're too good to be true" or "You're too bad to be... false" ?
MJ CHRISTINE

People don't know how to knock anymore. I guess they think that's just a waste of time. Bah, go ahea...
MJ CHRISTINE

Thanks for informing us (in Facebook). We really NEED to know that your armpit is sweating like hell...
MJ CHRISTINE

I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be

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I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be

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