"The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues."

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Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

Christine de Pizan

#Sex Quotes #Lying Quotes #Men Quotes

“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”
“I want to share the ballet world with everyone.”
“Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.”
“We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.”
“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.”

Source : Alfred Einstein (1962). “Mozart, His Character, His Work”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand
“We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”
“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”

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