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Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

1844–1900 Germany

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

Man is for woman a means; the end is always the child.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent—thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: it is called pregnancy.

Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)

Wherever the industrial spirit has triumphed over the military and aristocratic spirit, woman now aspires to the economic and legal self-reliance of a clerk.

Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)

You are going to women? Do not forget the whip!

Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)

Women want to become independent. To this end they are beginning to enlighten men about "women as such." This is one of the worst aspects of progress in the general uglification of Europe.

Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)

In no age has the weaker sex been treated with as much respect by men as in ours: that belongs to the democratic inclination and basic taste, just like disrespectfulness for old age.

Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)

Beware: "In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man."

Man is for woman, a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man? Two different things wanteth the true man: danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)

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