Christine de Pizan Quotes

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

Christine de Pizan

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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Truth
  • You
  • Paint

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Better

• Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Day
  • Own

• What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Why
  • Father

• If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Why
  • Want
  • Wonder

• I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I want people to realize that they can dream big.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Want
  • Dream

• I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• The motto of feminists: 'There is never an excuse for hitting a woman.' Shouldn’t it be, 'There is never an excuse for hitting.'?

  

  Warren Farrell

• This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Canvas

• Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Science
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

  

  Ann-Marie Campbell

• I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• I do not believe on giving amnesty.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.

  

  Peter Agre
  • Training

• The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Why
  • Character
  • Together

• I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

  

  William Fitzsimmons
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Listening

• A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Women
  • Shadow
  • Follows

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

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Women
  • Understanding
  • Bodies