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[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman who condemns a man of high understanding and dedicated study, a man who, by great labour and mature deliberation, has made the very noble book of the Rose, which surpasses all others that were ever written in French. When you have read this book a hundred times, provided you have understood the greater part of it, you will discover that you could never have put your time and intellect to better use!" My answer: Oh man deceived by willful opinion! I could assuredly answer but I prefer not to do it with insult, although, groundlessly, you yourself slander me with ugly accusations. Oh darkened understanding! Oh perverted knowledge ... A simple little housewife sustained by the doctrine of Holy Church could criticise your error!


Christine de Pizan


#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.


Christine de Pizan


#books #character #clichés #conduct #double-standards

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.


Hedy Lamarr


#head #his #i #insulted #louis

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.


James Meredith


#civil #civil rights #concept #could #insulting

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.


Louis Nizer


#insults #thousand #worth

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.


Pat Robertson


#america #away #best #bible #children

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.


Danny Aiello


#because #call #consider #early #had

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.


Isabel Allende


#books #fact #get #great #i

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.


J. J. Abrams


#huge #i #insult #kid #now

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.


Theodor Adorno


#insults #mean #most #say