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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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 think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
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There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
