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{{Quote|"No one can evade the fact, that in taking up a masculine calling, studying and working in a man's way, woman is doing something not wholly in agreement with, if not directly injurious to, her feminine nature."}} | {{Quote|"No one can evade the fact, that in taking up a masculine calling, studying and working in a man's way, woman is doing something not wholly in agreement with, if not directly injurious to, her feminine nature."}} | ||
==1880–1903: [[Otto Weininger]]== | ==1880–1903: [[Otto Weininger]]== | ||
{{Quote|"A superior woman is still infinitely inferior to that which, at least potentially, exists in the lowest of men."}} | {{Quote|"A superior woman is still infinitely inferior to that which, at least potentially, exists in the lowest of men."|[[Sex and Character (book)|''Sex and Character'']]}} | ||
{{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|"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."|''Ibid''}} | ||
{{Quote|"The well-known phrase, “Women have no character,” really means the same thing. Personality and individuality (intelligible), ego and soul, will and (intelligible) character, all these are different expressions of the same actuality, an actuality the male of mankind attains, the female lacks."}} | {{Quote|"The well-known phrase, “Women have no character,” really means the same thing. Personality and individuality (intelligible), ego and soul, will and (intelligible) character, all these are different expressions of the same actuality, an actuality the male of mankind attains, the female lacks."| ''Ibid''}} | ||
{{Quote|"How can I accuse woman after all, for serving man? Man wants nothing other than her. There is no man who would not be happy when he exercises sexual effect upon a woman. Hatred against woman is always only the not yet overcome hatred of one's own sexuality".}} | {{Quote|"How can I accuse woman after all, for serving man? Man wants nothing other than her. There is no man who would not be happy when he exercises sexual effect upon a woman. Hatred against woman is always only the not yet overcome hatred of one's own sexuality".| ''Ibid''}} | ||
==1880–1956: H. L. Mencken== | ==1880–1956: H. L. Mencken== | ||
{{Quote|"The first-rate woman is a realist. She sees clearly that, in a world dominated by second-rate men, the special capacities of the second-rate man are esteemed above all other capacities and given the highest rewards, and she endeavors to get her share of those rewards by marrying a second-rate man at the top of his class".}} | {{Quote|"The first-rate woman is a realist. She sees clearly that, in a world dominated by second-rate men, the special capacities of the second-rate man are esteemed above all other capacities and given the highest rewards, and she endeavors to get her share of those rewards by marrying a second-rate man at the top of his class".}} | ||