Otto Weininger Quotes

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.