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{{Quote|"Woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant... she needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, and being humble as divine"}} | {{Quote|"Woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant... she needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, and being humble as divine"}} | ||
{{Quote|"From a woman you can learn nothing of women"}} | {{Quote|"From a woman you can learn nothing of women"}} | ||
{{Quote|"But the man who is not superficial, who has depth of thought as well as of purpose, the depth which not only makes him desire right but endows him with determination and strength to do right, must always look on woman from the oriental standpoint:—as a possession, as private | {{Quote|"Are you a slave? If so, you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? If so, you cannot have friends. In woman, a slave and a tyrant have all too long been concealed. For that reason, woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knows only love. In a woman's love is injustice and blindness towards all that she does not love."}} | ||
{{Quote|"But the man who is not superficial, who has depth of thought as well as of purpose, the depth which not only makes him desire right but endows him with determination and strength to do right, must always look on woman from the oriental standpoint:—as a possession, as private property, as something born to serve and be dependent on him ... What a necessary, logical, desirable growth for mankind! if we could only attain to it ourselves!}} | |||
==1849–1912: August Strindberg== | ==1849–1912: August Strindberg== | ||
{{Quote|"Every healthy man is a woman hater—yet he cannot survive if he does not ally himself with his enemy."}} | {{Quote|"Every healthy man is a woman hater—yet he cannot survive if he does not ally himself with his enemy."}} | ||