Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman