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

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

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.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.

Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.