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==1844–1900: [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]== | ==1844–1900: [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]== | ||
{{Quote|"From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth—her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty"}} | {{Quote|"From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth—her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty"}} | ||
{{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|"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!}} | {{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!}} | ||
{{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''}} | ||
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{{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''}} | {{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''}} | ||
{{Quote|"In the state of hatred, women are more perilous than men; first of all, by no consideration of fairness, they can be inhibited in their once-aroused hostility, but allow their hatred to grow undisturbed to its final consequences, then because they are trained to find wounds (which every person, every party has), they stick to it: for which their sharp intellect provides them excellent services (whereas men are reserved at the sight of wounds, often generous and forgiving in their tune)."|''Human, All Too Human''}} | {{Quote|"In the state of hatred, women are more perilous than men; first of all, by no consideration of fairness, they can be inhibited in their once-aroused hostility, but allow their hatred to grow undisturbed to its final consequences, then because they are trained to find wounds (which every person, every party has), they stick to it: for which their sharp intellect provides them excellent services (whereas men are reserved at the sight of wounds, often generous and forgiving in their tune)."|''Human, All Too Human''}} | ||
{{Quote|"If the discontented, bitter and grumbling-heads were denied reproduction, the earth could be enchanted into a garden of happiness | {{Quote|"If the discontented, bitter and grumbling-heads were denied reproduction, the earth could be enchanted into a garden of happiness - This one rule belongs in a practical philosophy for the female sex."|''Human, All Too Human''}} | ||
{{Quote|"Reflect on the whole history of women: do they not ''have ''to be<br />first of all and above all else actresses? Listen to physicians who<br />have hypnotized women; finally, love them—let yourself be<br />“hypnotized by them”! What is always the end result? That<br />they “put on something” even when they take off everything.<br />Woman is so artistic."|The Gay Science}} | {{Quote|"Reflect on the whole history of women: do they not ''have ''to be<br />first of all and above all else actresses? Listen to physicians who<br />have hypnotized women; finally, love them—let yourself be<br />“hypnotized by them”! What is always the end result? That<br />they “put on something” even when they take off everything.<br />Woman is so artistic."|The Gay Science}} | ||
{{Quote|"Untroubled, scornful, outrageous this is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and she never loves anyone but a warrior."|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 68, Part 1, "Of Reading and Writing"). Nietzsche, F. W. (1961). ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans.). Penguin (Original work published 1883-1891).}} | |||
{{Quote|"Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer than into the dreams of a lusty woman? And just look at these men: their eyes reveal it—they know of nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman. There is filth at the bottom of their souls; and it is worse if this filth still has something of the spirit in it!"|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 81, Part 1, "Of Chastity").}} | |||
{{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. And in the enlightened love of a woman, too, there is still the unexpected attack and lighting and night, along with the light. Women is not yet capable of friendship, women are still cats and birds. Or at best cows. Woman is not yet capable of friendship. But tell me you men, which of you is yet capable of friendship?"|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, pp. 83-84, Part 1, "Of the Friend").}} | |||
{{Quote|"A little old woman encountered me and spoke this to my soul: 'Zarathustra has spoken to us women to, but he has never spoken to us about woman'. And I answered her: 'One should speak about women only to men' [...] Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: it is called pregnancy. For the woman, the man is the means, the end is the child. But what is woman for the man? Every true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. The warrior does not like fruit that is too sweet. Therefore he likes woman; even the sweetest woman is still bitter."|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, pp. 91-92, Part 1, "Of Old and Young Women").}} | |||
{{Quote|"Women understands children better than a man, but man is more childlike than woman. A child is concealed in the true man: it wants to play. Come, woman, discover the child in man!"|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, pp. 91-92, Part 1, "Of Old and Young Women").}} | |||
{{Quote|"Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine like a precious stone illuminated by the virtues of a world that does not yet exist. Let the flash of a star glitter in your love! Let the hope of a woman be: 'May I bear the Superman'. [...] Let there be honour in your love. Woman has understood little otherwise about honour. But let this be your honour: always to love more than you are loved and never be second in this. Let men fear woman when she loves. Then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless. Let man fear woman when she hates, for man is at the bottom of his soul only wicked, but woman is base."| (Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 92, Part 1, "Of Old and Young Women".}} | |||
{{Quote|"Whom does women hate most? - Thus spoke the iron to the magnet: 'I hate you most, because you attract me, but are not strong enough to draw me to you'. The man's happiness is: I will. The woman's happiness is: He will."|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 92, Part 1, "Of Old and Young Women").}} | |||
{{Quote|"And woman has to obey and find a depth for her surface. Woman's nature is surface, a changeable, stormy film upon waters. But a man's nature is deep, its torrent roars in subterranean caves: woman senses its power but does not comprehend it."|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 92, Part 1, "Of Old and Young Women").}} | |||
{{Quote|"Then the little old woman answered me: Zarathustra has said many nice things, especially for those you are still young enough for them. It is strange, Zarathustra knows little about women and yet he is right about them. Is this because with women nothing is impossible?' [...] 'Give me your little truth, woman!' I said. And thus spoke the little old woman: "Are you visiting women, do not forget your whip!'. Thus spoke Zarathustra."|92-93 (Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, pp. 92-93, Part 1, "Of Old and Young Women").}} | |||
{{Quote|"Happiness runs after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 184, Part 3, "Of Involuntary Bliss").}} | |||
{{Quote|"There is little manliness here: therefore their women make themselves manly. For only he that is sufficiently a man will - ''redeem the woman'' in woman."|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 189, Part 3, II "Of the Virtue That Makes Small").}} | |||
{{Quote|"Sensual pleasure: the great symbolic happiness of a higher happiness and highest hope. For marriage is promised to many, and more than marriage - to many that are stranger to one another than man and woman: and who has fully conceived how strange man and woman are to one another!"|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 204, Part 3, II "Of the Three Evil Things").}} | |||
{{Quote|"Much hidden goodness and power is never guessed at; the most exquisite dainties find no takers! Women, or the most exquisite of them, know this: a little fatter, a little thinner - oh how much fate lies in so little!"|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 212, Part 3, II "Of the Spirit of Gravity").}} | |||
{{Quote|"You creators, you higher men! Whoever has to give birth is sick; but whoever has given birth is unclean. Ask the women: one does not give birth for pleasure. The pain makes hens and poets cackle. You creators, there is much in you that is unclean. That is because you have to be mothers."|(Nietzsche, 1961/1883-91, p. 302, Part 4, XII "Of the Higher Man").}} | |||
==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."}} | ||