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[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.
[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.
Approximate author period: c. 1397 AD · medieval
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- Christine de Pizan
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- Approximate author period: c. 1397 AD · medieval
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Christine de Pizan, based on documented lifetime 1364 to 1430. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234816 (checked 2026-10-08). The death year is approximate in the authority description. This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234816 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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