How was she created? I’m not sure if you realize this, but it was in God’s image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.
For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.
The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
How many women are there … who because of their husbands’ harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
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.
For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.
… one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.
These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.
By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.
We’ve never heardAbout a marvel quite so great,For all the heroes who have livedIn history can’t measure upIn bravery against the Maid.
As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.