Christine de Pizan was a feminist that strongly believed and argued that the mind is master over the body because it knows that the weaknesses of the body and a strong mind is much better and deserve more credit than a strong body because the mind controls the body.
She believed the body was more susceptible to weaknesses than the mind.
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