It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race: for the whole beauty of this sex is bound up with this impulse.
— Arthur Schopenhauer Modern

Pessimist philosophy

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On Women

Date / Period

1851

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10738/10738-h/10738-h.htm

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