Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured. Christine De Pizan
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The above quotes are used to portray women as weak-willed, weak-minded, flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant. However, this quote is also referring to men who are tricking women in order to have their way with them. As if women are too weak to resist the advances of men. The idea is that men are tricking women into becoming their lovers. If they were not so easily conquered by men they would not be put in this situation.

Source: Der Sendbrief Vom Liebesgott / The Letter Of The God Of Love

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