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{{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''}} | {{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''}} | ||
==1880-1936: Oswald Spengler== | |||
{{Quote|"The male livingly experiences Destiny, and he comprehends Causality, the causal logic of the become. The female, on the contrary, is herself Destiny and Time and the organic logic of the Becoming, and for that very reason the principle of Causality is for ever alien to her.|''The Decline of The West''}} | |||
{{Quote|"Woman is strong and wholly what she is, and she experiences the Man and the sons only in relation to herself and her ordained role. In the masculine being, on the contrary, there is a certain contradiction; he is this man, and he is something else besides, which woman neither understands nor admits, which she feels as robbery and violence upon that which to her is holiest. This secret and fundamental war of the sexes has gone on ever since there were sexes, and will continue - silent, bitter, unforgiving, pitiless - while they continue."|''Ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"The man climbs up in his history until he has the future of a country in his hands - and then woman comes and forces him to his knees. Peoples and states may go down in ruin over it, but she in her history has conquered. This, in the last analysis, is always the aim of political ambition in a woman of race."|''Ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"And not until women cease to have race enough to have or to want children, not until they cease to be history, does it become possible for them to make or to copy the history of men."|''Ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"Man as peasant or noble turns towards, man as priest turns away from, woman [...] But for the true priest ''media vita in morte sumus'' (in the midst of life we be in death); what he shall bequeath is intellectual, and rejected woman bears no part in it."|''Ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"The woman is world-history. By conceiving and giving birth she cares for the perpetuation of the blood. The mother with the child at her breast is the grand emblem of cosmic life."|''Ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"Quite animal still is the trickery of woman towards man, and equally so the peasant's shrewdness in obtaining small advantages - both differing in no wise from the slyness of the fox, both consisting in the ability to see into the secret of the victim at one glance."|''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".}} | ||