I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARCAs for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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Act, and God will act.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.
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What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
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