Knowledge is easy,” the old woman told her. “Wisdom is hard.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

A person of wisdom should be truthful, without arrogance, without deceit, not slanderous and not hateful.

The wise person should go beyond the evil of greed and miserliness.
To have your mind set on calmness, you must take power over sleepiness, drowsiness and lethargy.
There is no place for laziness and no recourse to pride.

Do not be led into lying, do not be attached to forms.
You must see through all pride and fare along without violence.
Do not get excited by what is old, do not be contented with what is new.
Do not grieve for what is lost or be controlled by desire.

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a creator, and inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds.