1. Arthur Schopenhauer: "Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted—in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word. [...] They are nothing but machines for producing children."
2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The first and most important qualification in a woman is good-nature or sweetness of temper; when a girl is of a sullen or severe disposition, she will never be amiable; if she be passionate or obstinate, she will be so to the end of her life; and every body will dread and dislike her. Her beauty will only prove a snare: she will be sought in marriage as a mistress, but she will never be valued as a wife, and, if she escapes the common hazards, she will be wretched in her own family."
3. Immanuel Kant: "Woman is at best a domestic animal. Her sphere is not public, but private. She should stay at home and concentrate on her duties as wife and mother."
4. Aristotle: "The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities. We should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness."
5. Friedrich Nietzsche: "When a woman has scholarly inclinations, there is usually something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is 'the barren animal.'"
6. Thomas Aquinas: "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition."
7. René Descartes: "Woman's passions are more powerful and dangerous than those of men, so much so that they are the sole cause of all the evil that takes place in the world."
8. John Stuart Mill: Although Mill was a proponent of women's rights, he made a statement that has been interpreted as having a sexist undertone: "Women are said to be naturally weaker than men, because they are made to obey, and men to command."
9. Sigmund Freud: "The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
10. Albert Schweitzer: "A woman still has her most important task in the field of love. And even if she has accomplished other things, in this one area she still simply has to believe what a man says."
11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The first and most important quality in a woman is good-nature; the second is sensitivity; the third is complaisance, which, if taken to excess, becomes compliancy."
12. Otto Weininger: "Women are deficient in the moral sense, and the difference between men and women, considered from this point of view, lies in the distinction between egoism and altruism."
13. Johann Gottlieb Fichte: "A woman is for the purpose of reproduction and her character, as a woman, is already defined; it is fixed, it is biologically given."
14. G. W. F. Hegel: "Women are incapable of abstraction; their intuition, as also their whole nature, goes to particulars directly."
15. Max Stirner: "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence."
16. Martin Heidegger: "The essence of woman is not only something limited to the feminine, but something universal."
17. Auguste Comte: "Woman must be subject to man, and she must obey him. If she rebels against his authority, she rebels against the order of nature."
18. Blaise Pascal: "The reason why women are so far removed from philosophy is that its chief occupations are masculine."
19. Karl Marx: "The bourgeois sees his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and naturally can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women."
2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The first and most important qualification in a woman is good-nature or sweetness of temper; when a girl is of a sullen or severe disposition, she will never be amiable; if she be passionate or obstinate, she will be so to the end of her life; and every body will dread and dislike her. Her beauty will only prove a snare: she will be sought in marriage as a mistress, but she will never be valued as a wife, and, if she escapes the common hazards, she will be wretched in her own family."
3. Immanuel Kant: "Woman is at best a domestic animal. Her sphere is not public, but private. She should stay at home and concentrate on her duties as wife and mother."
4. Aristotle: "The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities. We should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness."
5. Friedrich Nietzsche: "When a woman has scholarly inclinations, there is usually something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is 'the barren animal.'"
6. Thomas Aquinas: "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition."
7. René Descartes: "Woman's passions are more powerful and dangerous than those of men, so much so that they are the sole cause of all the evil that takes place in the world."
8. John Stuart Mill: Although Mill was a proponent of women's rights, he made a statement that has been interpreted as having a sexist undertone: "Women are said to be naturally weaker than men, because they are made to obey, and men to command."
9. Sigmund Freud: "The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
10. Albert Schweitzer: "A woman still has her most important task in the field of love. And even if she has accomplished other things, in this one area she still simply has to believe what a man says."
11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The first and most important quality in a woman is good-nature; the second is sensitivity; the third is complaisance, which, if taken to excess, becomes compliancy."
12. Otto Weininger: "Women are deficient in the moral sense, and the difference between men and women, considered from this point of view, lies in the distinction between egoism and altruism."
13. Johann Gottlieb Fichte: "A woman is for the purpose of reproduction and her character, as a woman, is already defined; it is fixed, it is biologically given."
14. G. W. F. Hegel: "Women are incapable of abstraction; their intuition, as also their whole nature, goes to particulars directly."
15. Max Stirner: "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence."
16. Martin Heidegger: "The essence of woman is not only something limited to the feminine, but something universal."
17. Auguste Comte: "Woman must be subject to man, and she must obey him. If she rebels against his authority, she rebels against the order of nature."
18. Blaise Pascal: "The reason why women are so far removed from philosophy is that its chief occupations are masculine."
19. Karl Marx: "The bourgeois sees his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and naturally can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women."
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