When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to be the champion who casts the rebels down and feeds France with the sweet, nourishing milk of peace, here indeed is something quite extraordinary!
For if God performed such a great number of miracles through Joshua who conquered many a place and cast down many an enemy, he, Joshua, was a strong and powerful man. But, after all, a woman – a simple shepherdess – braver than any man ever was in Rome! As far as God is concerned, this was easily accomplished.
But as for us, we never heard tell of such an extraordinary marvel, for the prowess of all the great men of the past cannot be compared to this woman's whose concern it is to cast out our enemies. This is God's doing: it is He who guides her and who has given her a heart greater than that of any man.
Tags: strength empowerment gender men women freedom war courage victory feminism salvation oppression respect leadership joan-of-arc
Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible.
Christine de PizanTags: strength empowerment gender men women freedom war courage victory feminism salvation oppression respect leadership joan-of-arc
To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?
Criss JamiTags: strength love passion purpose emotion meaning independence creed sacrifice stowe monotony princess-leia fighting-for-truth joan-of-arc beauvoir et-cetera xena
It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu
Susan BanfieldTags: joan-of-arc
You Englishman, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid, that you quit your fortresses and return into your own country, or if not, I shall make such mayhem that the memory of it will be perpetual. - Joan of Arc
Susan BanfieldTags: joan-of-arc
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others need no preparation and got none.
Mark TwainTags: mark-twain joan-of-arc joan-of-arc-the-mystic-legacy
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
G.K. ChestertonTags: saints chastity joan-of-arc
We've never heard
About a marvel quite so great,
For all the heroes who have lived
In history can't measure up
In bravery against the Maid.
Tags: feminism humanism renaissance joan-of-arc
Act, and God will act.
Jeanne d'ArcTags: god joan-of-arc roman-catholic-saint
If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.
Philippa GregoryTags: war death destruction will-of-god joan-of-arc
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