Christine Pisan
Christine Pisan
bodies softer understanding
Just as womens bodies are softer than mens, so their understanding is sharper.
custom doubt learn sciences thee
I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be
acquire developing field heart love purpose raising serious widening woman
This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man