Saudade
midwit
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Before someone says how it was different time, he lived through French revolution that overthrew conservative Catholic monarchy and embraced liberal republic with plenty of progressive laws on the level of modern world.
On the tasks of women
When the writer Germaine de Staël asked Napoleon who was the greatest woman in the world, he replied, “she who has borne the greatest number of children.”
Napoleon told his first wife, Josephine, that “the wife was made for the husband, the husband for his country, his family, and glory.”
He said to Irish surgeon Barry O’Meara, “Women, when they are bad, are worse than men, and more ready to commit crimes. The soft sex, when degraded, falls lower than the other.”
Women are nothing more than machines to give birth.
On schooling women
Women turn these places into pits of conspiracy and gossip. A woman was made for private life within the home.
What we ask of education is not that girls should think, but that they should believe. The weakness of women’s brains, the instability of their ideas, the place they will fill in society, their need for perpetual resignation.
On women he didn't like
Napoleon had a host of epithets for Madame de Staël, an articulate and assertive woman who disagreed with him: “intriguer [and] veritable plague,” “regular crow,” “mad woman,” “worthless woman,” “scheming woman.” He banished her from France.
On general insults to men
When Napoleon wanted to insult a man, he would accuse him of having womanly qualities. In 1806, he expressed his anger with his uncle, Cardinal Joseph Fesch, by telling him: “You behave like a woman at Rome… You meddle with things which you do not understand.”
In 1813, when Napoleon was dissatisfied with the performance of his generals in Spain, he denounced them for “behaving like cowardly women.”
On women in society
We treat women too well, and in this way have spoiled everything. We have done every wrong by raising them to our level.
Let the women whine, it is their business.
On the tasks of women
When the writer Germaine de Staël asked Napoleon who was the greatest woman in the world, he replied, “she who has borne the greatest number of children.”
Napoleon told his first wife, Josephine, that “the wife was made for the husband, the husband for his country, his family, and glory.”
He said to Irish surgeon Barry O’Meara, “Women, when they are bad, are worse than men, and more ready to commit crimes. The soft sex, when degraded, falls lower than the other.”
Women are nothing more than machines to give birth.
On schooling women
Women turn these places into pits of conspiracy and gossip. A woman was made for private life within the home.
What we ask of education is not that girls should think, but that they should believe. The weakness of women’s brains, the instability of their ideas, the place they will fill in society, their need for perpetual resignation.
On women he didn't like
Napoleon had a host of epithets for Madame de Staël, an articulate and assertive woman who disagreed with him: “intriguer [and] veritable plague,” “regular crow,” “mad woman,” “worthless woman,” “scheming woman.” He banished her from France.
On general insults to men
When Napoleon wanted to insult a man, he would accuse him of having womanly qualities. In 1806, he expressed his anger with his uncle, Cardinal Joseph Fesch, by telling him: “You behave like a woman at Rome… You meddle with things which you do not understand.”
In 1813, when Napoleon was dissatisfied with the performance of his generals in Spain, he denounced them for “behaving like cowardly women.”
On women in society
We treat women too well, and in this way have spoiled everything. We have done every wrong by raising them to our level.
Let the women whine, it is their business.