Sex and Character (book): Difference between revisions

{{Quote|''The condition of sexual excitement is the supreme moment of a woman's life. The woman is devoted wholly to sexual matters, that is to say, to the spheres of begetting and of reproduction. Her relations to her husband and children complete her life, whereas the male is something more than sexual."}}

{{Quote|''A being like the female, without the power of making concepts, is unable to make judgments. In her “mind” subjective and objective are not separated; there is no possibility of making judgments, and no possibility of reaching, or of desiring, truth. No woman is really interested in science; she may deceive herself and many good men, but bad psychologists, by thinking so''}}

{{Quote|''It is very shortsighted of any one to consider the nurse as a proof of the sympathy of women, because it really implies the opposite ... Any one who has watched nursing sisters is astonished at their equanimity and “sweetness” even in the presence of most terrible death throes; and it is well that it is so, for man, who cannot stand suffering and death, would make a very bad nurse."}}

{{Quote| ''As [[Schopenhauer]] put it, female sympathy is a matter of sobbing and wailing on the slightest provocation, without the smallest attempt to control the emotion; on the other hand, all true sorrow, like true sympathy, just because it is real sorrow, must be reserved.''}}

{{Quote|''From the side of empirical observation, no stronger proof of the soullessness of woman could be drawn than that she demands a soul in man, that she who is not good in herself demands goodness from him.''}}

{{Quote|''No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.'' }}

{{Quote|''As a rule, the woman adapts herself to the man, his views become hers, his likes and dislikes are shared by her, every word he says is an incentive to her, and the stronger his sexual influence on her the more this is so.''}}

{{Quote|''Woman does not wish to be treated as an active agent; she wants to remain always and throughout – this is just her womanhood – purely passive, to feel herself under another's will. She demands only to desired physically, to be taken possession of, like a new property.''}}

{{Quote|''Her existence is bound up with the Phallus, and so that is her supreme lord and welcome master.  Sex, in the form of man, is woman's fate; the [[chad|Don Juan]] is the only type of man who has complete power over her.''}}  

{{Quote|''Woman is merely the result of this affirmation; she is sexuality itself. Woman's existence is dependent on man; when man, as man, in contradistinction to woman, is sexual, he is giving woman form, calling her into existence. Therefore woman's one object must be to keep man sexual.''}}