I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honoured as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and in securing the coronation of Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to act under divine guidance, she became a military leader recognized as a saviour of France.
She was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428 she asked to be taken to Charles VII, later testifying that visions from the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine had guided her to help him save France from English domination. At about seventeen she was sent to Orléans with a relief army, arriving in April 1429, and nine days later the English abandoned the siege.
She was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428 she asked to be taken to Charles VII, later testifying that visions from the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine had guided her to help him save France from English domination. At about seventeen she was sent to Orléans with a relief army, arriving in April 1429, and nine days later the English abandoned the siege.
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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, I would have gone nevertheless.
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
— Joan of Arc
I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.