woman, if woman's work, were excluded from it? Let us acknowledge the
exception - it proves the rule - that woman is capable of perfection in
everything which does not constitute a work: in letters, in memoirs, in
the most intricate handiwork - in short, everything which is not a
craft; and precisely because in the things mentioned woman perfects
herself, because in them she obeys the only artistic impulse in her
nature, which is to captivate.




- And finally, woman! One-half of mankind is weak, chronic- ally sick,
changeable, shifty - woman requires . . . a religion of the weak which
glorifies weakness, love and modesty as divine: or better still, she
makes the strong weak - she succeeds in overcoming the strong. Woman has
always conspired with decadent types - the priests, for instance -
against the "mighty," against the "strong," against men. Women avail
themselves of children for the cult of piety . . .




- 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 lightning
and night, along with the light. Woman 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?






From "THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA"



- One cannot obtain Knowledge of Brahman unless one is extremely
cautious about women. Therefore it is very difficult for those who live
in the world to get such Knowledge. However clever you may be, you will
stain your body if you live in a sooty room. The company of a young
woman evokes lust even in a lustles

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