“Woman was God’s second mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment — but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, book The Antichrist
Sec. 48
The Antichrist (1888)
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