I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

... privation is the source of appetite.

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.