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{{Quote|"While she thus appropriates new rights, aspires to be 'master', and inscribes the 'progress' of woman on her flags and banners, the very opposite reveals itself with terrible obviousness: woman retrogrades."|''Beyond Good and Evil''}} | {{Quote|"While she thus appropriates new rights, aspires to be 'master', and inscribes the 'progress' of woman on her flags and banners, the very opposite reveals itself with terrible obviousness: woman retrogrades."|''Beyond Good and Evil''}} | ||
{{Quote|"Every relation that does not lift pulls down, and vice versa; therefore men usually sink a little when they take women, while women are lifted a little. Men who are too spiritual need marriage as much as they resist it like an adverse medicine."|''Human, All Too Human''}} | {{Quote|"Every relation that does not lift pulls down, and vice versa; therefore men usually sink a little when they take women, while women are lifted a little. Men who are too spiritual need marriage as much as they resist it like an adverse medicine."|''Human, All Too Human''}} | ||
{{Quote|"Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the idea that it is in their power to make a man happy; later they learn that it means 'to look down on a man if one assumes that it only takes one girl to make him happy.' The vanity of women demands that a man to be more than a happy husband."|''Human, All Too Human''}} | |||
==1849–1912: August Strindberg== | ==1849–1912: August Strindberg== | ||