there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

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]?

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

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

Poetry's object is truth.