Quotes by 14th-century Women

Catherine of Siena

Christine de Pizan

Julian of Norwich

Juliana Berners

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

Julian of Norwich

She came before the Archbishop and fell down on her knees, the Archbishop saying full boisterously unto her: "Why weepest thou, woman?" She, answering, said: "Sir, ye shall wish some day that ye had wept as sore as I."

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

Catherine of Siena

I'll give you some conclusive examples. I repeat — and don't doubt my word — that if it were the custom to send little girls to school and to teach them all sorts of different subjects there, as one does with little boys, they would grasp and learn the difficulties of all the arts and sciences just as easily as the boys do.

Christine de Pizan

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

Juliana Berners