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There's a line in Don Quixote, "In my opinion Sancho there is no proverb that is not true as they are all observations based on experience itself, the Mother of all sciences".

Let's hope he was wrong, judging by most of the proverbs gathered in a new collection, Never Marry A Woman With Big Feet.

Dutch academic Mineke Schipper has been collecting proverbs from all over the world. He joins Martha to talk about their origins and why the vast majority of the proverbs he published seemed to be from a male perspective.

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World by Mineke Schipper is published by Yale University Press ISBN 0300102496.

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