Woman has a superior feeling for the beautiful, so far as it pertains to herself.

-- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Women have a strong inborn feeling for all that is beautiful, elegant, and decorated. . . . Very early they have a modest manner about themselves, know how to give themselves a fine demeanor and be self-possessed--and this at an age when our wellbred male youth is still unruly, clumsy, and confused.

-- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

The virtue of a woman is a beautiful virtue. . . . Women will avoid the wicked not because it is unright, but because it is ugly; and virtuous actions mean to them such as are morally beautiful. Nothing of duty, nothing of compulsion, nothing of obligation! Woman is intolerant of all commands and all morose constraint. They do something only because it pleases them, and the art consists in making only that please them, which is good.

-- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

[Woman’s] philosophy is not to reason, but to sense.

-- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

A woman is embarrassed little that she does not possess certain high insights; that she is timid, and not fit for serious employment . . . . She is beautiful and captivates, and that is enough.

-- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Even if a woman excels in arduous learning and painstaking thinking they will exterminate the merits of her sex.

-- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Women are more inclined to be miserly than men. This is in keeping with the nature of woman, for the women have to be more sparing since they are spending money which they do not earn themselves.

-- Lectures on Ethics

Women, Jews, and priests do not usually get drunk, because they are bourgeoisly weak and find restraint necessary; for their worth rests entirely upon the belief of others in their chastity, piety, and lawabidingness.

-- Quoted in F. X. Arnold’s Woman and Man: Their Nature and Mission

Because she [a woman] is weak, she is clever.

-- Fragments

Woman wants control, man self-control . .

-- Anthropology, Scattered Observations

Man must be manly and woman womanly; effeminacy in man pleases as little as does masculinity in woman.

-- Lectures on Ethics

Man should become more perfect as a man, and the woman as a wife . .

. -- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime