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
Christine De Pizan
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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.
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If you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your antifeminist attacks please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.
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