Christine de Pizan Quotes
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
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I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.
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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
