Medieval Women Quotes

#1. An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

Pearl S. Buck

#2. The audience is never wrong.

Carol Burnett

#3. The good I do is not a matter of the direct benefits I cause. Rather, it is the difference I make.

William MacAskill

#4. Medieval anatomists called women's external genitals the "pudendum," a word derived from the Latin pudere, meaning "to make ashamed." Our genitalia were thus named "from the shamefacedness that is in women to have them seen."1

Emily Nagoski

#5. The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

Ibn Ata Allah

#6. Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

Sharon Kay Penman

#8. The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.

Honore De Balzac

#9. And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Juice Newton

#10. There was deep truth in the fact that men spoke of Holy Mother Church, for the Church was the force of civilization and compassion among nations, just as women brought mercy and gentleness to men.

Mary Jo Putney

#11. Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.

Marie De France

#12. There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

Grant Morrison

#13. To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!

William Henry Ogilvie

#14. What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

Hanya Yanagihara

#15. You are the only good reason.

Katja Millay

#16. I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.

Sushmita Banerjee

#17. ...sin does not deal its consequences evenly upon men and women...

Joyce DiPastena

#18. Kindness takes energy. If I say yes to everything, I don't have energy left to be kind.

Esther Hizsa