Christine de Pizan Quote

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.


Translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant, The Book of the City of Ladies, Part I, 26 (p. 57), Penguin Books. 1999


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...

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...

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...

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...