Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.