Christine de Pizan

 

Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430)

“If I were to recount to you all the great gifts that women have brought, it would take up far too many pages.”

  • From The Book of the City of Ladies (Part II, chapter 35) by Christine de Pizan, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant (Penguin Classics, 1999).

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