- "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, big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man."
- "Women always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important...This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance."
- "It is because women’s weaker reasoning powers that they show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men, whereas men are superior in matters of justice, honesty, and conscientiousness...Their deficiency in the power of reasoning is partly due to the fact that Nature has not destined them to be dependent on strength but on cunning; this is why they are instinctively crafty, and have an ineradicable tendency to lie...Nature has provided woman for her protection and defense with the faculty of dissimulation...A woman who is perfectly truthful and does not dissemble is perhaps an impossibility. This is why they see through dissimulation in others so easily; therefore it is not advisable to attempt it with them."
- On deceit and hypergamous infidelity: "Their conscience does not trouble them so much as we imagine, for in the darkest depths of their hearts they are conscious that in violating their duty towards the individual they have all the better fulfilled it towards the species...Women exist entirely for the propagation of the race, and their destiny ends here, they live more for the species than for the individual...This gives to their whole being and character a certain frivolousness, and altogether a certain tendency which is fundamentally different from that of man."
- "When two women first make each other’s acquaintance that they exhibit more constraint and dissimulation than two men placed in similar circumstances. This is why an exchange of compliments between two women is much more ridiculous than between two men."
- "It is natural for a feeling of mere indifference to exist between men, but between women it is actual enmity...While a man will, as a rule, address others, even those inferior to himself, with a certain feeling of consideration and humanity, it is unbearable to see how proudly and disdainfully a lady of rank will, for the most part, behave towards one who is in a lower rank when she speaks to her. This may be because differences of rank are much more precarious with women than with us...While a hundred things must be weighed in our case, there is only one to be weighed in theirs, namely, with which man they have found favor...Because of the one-sided nature of their vocation they stand in closer relationship to each other than men do; and so it is they try to render prominent the differences of rank."
- "A woman is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a man; all her direct mastery being limited to him alone. Therefore it lies in woman’s nature to look upon everything only as a means for winning man, and her interest in anything else is always a simulated one, a mere roundabout way to gain her ends, consisting of coquetry and pretense."
- "Individual and partial exceptions do not alter the matter; women are and remain the most thorough and incurable philistines."
- "Women are a constant stimulus to man's ignoble ambitions."
- "Women are the second sex in every respect...to treat women with extreme reverence is ridiculous, and lowers us in their own eyes...The ancients and people of the East recognized a woman's true position better than we, with our old French ideas of gallantry and absurd veneration, that highest product of Christian–Teutonic stupidity. These ideas have only served to make women arrogant and imperious."
- "In the West, the woman, that is to say the “lady,” finds herself in a false position; for woman is by no means fit to be the object of our honor and veneration."
- On marriage: "The laws of marriage which accompany the institution of monogamy, assign to the woman, whereby she is regarded throughout as a full equivalent of the man, which she is not by any means, cause intelligent and prudent men to reflect a great deal before they make so great a sacrifice and consent to so unfair an arrangement...That the property which men have with difficulty acquired by long-continued struggling and hard work should afterwards come into the hands of women, who, in their want of reason, either squander it within a short time or otherwise waste it, is an injustice as great as it is common, and it should be prevented by limiting the right of women to inherit...It is men who make the money, and not women; therefore women are neither justified in having unconditional possession of it nor capable of administrating it."
- "The love of a mother is purely instinctive, and consequently ceases when the child is no longer physically helpless...The love of a father for his children is of a different nature and more sincere; it is founded on a recognition of his own inner self in the child, and is therefore metaphysical in its origin."
- "The vanity of women has this evil in it, that it is directed on material things - that is to say, on their personal beauty and then on tinsel, pomp, and show. This is why they are in their right element in society. This it is which makes them inclined to be extravagant, especially since they possess little reasoning power...Men’s vanity, on the other hand, is often directed on non-material advantages, such as intellect, learning, courage, and the like."
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- "Women always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important...This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance."
- "It is because women’s weaker reasoning powers that they show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men, whereas men are superior in matters of justice, honesty, and conscientiousness...Their deficiency in the power of reasoning is partly due to the fact that Nature has not destined them to be dependent on strength but on cunning; this is why they are instinctively crafty, and have an ineradicable tendency to lie...Nature has provided woman for her protection and defense with the faculty of dissimulation...A woman who is perfectly truthful and does not dissemble is perhaps an impossibility. This is why they see through dissimulation in others so easily; therefore it is not advisable to attempt it with them."
- On deceit and hypergamous infidelity: "Their conscience does not trouble them so much as we imagine, for in the darkest depths of their hearts they are conscious that in violating their duty towards the individual they have all the better fulfilled it towards the species...Women exist entirely for the propagation of the race, and their destiny ends here, they live more for the species than for the individual...This gives to their whole being and character a certain frivolousness, and altogether a certain tendency which is fundamentally different from that of man."
- "When two women first make each other’s acquaintance that they exhibit more constraint and dissimulation than two men placed in similar circumstances. This is why an exchange of compliments between two women is much more ridiculous than between two men."
- "It is natural for a feeling of mere indifference to exist between men, but between women it is actual enmity...While a man will, as a rule, address others, even those inferior to himself, with a certain feeling of consideration and humanity, it is unbearable to see how proudly and disdainfully a lady of rank will, for the most part, behave towards one who is in a lower rank when she speaks to her. This may be because differences of rank are much more precarious with women than with us...While a hundred things must be weighed in our case, there is only one to be weighed in theirs, namely, with which man they have found favor...Because of the one-sided nature of their vocation they stand in closer relationship to each other than men do; and so it is they try to render prominent the differences of rank."
- "A woman is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a man; all her direct mastery being limited to him alone. Therefore it lies in woman’s nature to look upon everything only as a means for winning man, and her interest in anything else is always a simulated one, a mere roundabout way to gain her ends, consisting of coquetry and pretense."
- "Individual and partial exceptions do not alter the matter; women are and remain the most thorough and incurable philistines."
- "Women are a constant stimulus to man's ignoble ambitions."
- "Women are the second sex in every respect...to treat women with extreme reverence is ridiculous, and lowers us in their own eyes...The ancients and people of the East recognized a woman's true position better than we, with our old French ideas of gallantry and absurd veneration, that highest product of Christian–Teutonic stupidity. These ideas have only served to make women arrogant and imperious."
- "In the West, the woman, that is to say the “lady,” finds herself in a false position; for woman is by no means fit to be the object of our honor and veneration."
- On marriage: "The laws of marriage which accompany the institution of monogamy, assign to the woman, whereby she is regarded throughout as a full equivalent of the man, which she is not by any means, cause intelligent and prudent men to reflect a great deal before they make so great a sacrifice and consent to so unfair an arrangement...That the property which men have with difficulty acquired by long-continued struggling and hard work should afterwards come into the hands of women, who, in their want of reason, either squander it within a short time or otherwise waste it, is an injustice as great as it is common, and it should be prevented by limiting the right of women to inherit...It is men who make the money, and not women; therefore women are neither justified in having unconditional possession of it nor capable of administrating it."
- "The love of a mother is purely instinctive, and consequently ceases when the child is no longer physically helpless...The love of a father for his children is of a different nature and more sincere; it is founded on a recognition of his own inner self in the child, and is therefore metaphysical in its origin."
- "The vanity of women has this evil in it, that it is directed on material things - that is to say, on their personal beauty and then on tinsel, pomp, and show. This is why they are in their right element in society. This it is which makes them inclined to be extravagant, especially since they possess little reasoning power...Men’s vanity, on the other hand, is often directed on non-material advantages, such as intellect, learning, courage, and the like."
http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/onwomen.html
