Philosophy and Women

I found these quotes online and thought they'd make for a good blog post.


“It is a law of nature that women should be held under the dominance of man.” ~ Confucius (ca. 500 BC)


"Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." ~ Genesis 3:16


"A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave." ~ Aristotle (384-322 BC)


"The male is by nature superior and the female inferior; one rules and the other is ruled."
~ Aristotle: The Politics, Book I


"Men's courage is shown in commanding and women's in obeying."
~ Aristotle: The Politics, Book I


"Fortune is like a woman; if you wish to master her, you must conquer her by force. Moreover, she is more willing to be conquered by forceful men of ability than by timid cowards." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince


"Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not rule and command him." ~ John Knox (1505-1572)


"The husband hath by law power and dominion over his wife, and may keep her by force, within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a violent or cruel manner." ~ Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Maxims of the law


"Love well, whip well." ~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Poor Richard


"Nature intended women to be our slaves. . . They are our property, we are not theirs . . . They belong to us, just as a tree which bears fruit belongs to the gardener." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)


"Woman is by nature meant to obey." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)


"You go to a woman? Do not forget your whip."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Thus Spoke Zarathustra, XVIII: Old and young women


"Woman is essentially a Phallus worshipper . . . permeated with a fear like that of a bird for a snake. . . It has never until now been made so clear where the bondage of women lies; it is in the sovereign, all too welcome power wielded over them by the Phallus." ~ Otto Weininger (1880-1903)


"Women, by nature, want to be dominated." ~ Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967)