Christine de Pizan Quotes

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

• Women
• Lives
• Spend
• Husbands
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  Gary Coleman
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• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Up
  • College
  • Chemistry

• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Play
  • Games

• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • You
  • Environment
  • Find

• Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Snooze

• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Child

• I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Control

• Semille wept not because she did something stupid; she wept because she *didn't* do something stupid. Sometimes, to do something stupid--to disobey your parents, to rush into battle, to speak out of turn, to ruin your life--is a far better thing to do than to do nothing at all.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Parents
  • Stupid
  • Battle

• 'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Quality
  • Bitter

• I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Good
  • Suffering

• Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Present

• 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
  • Women
  • Lives
  • Spend