On Female Inferiority, The Goncourt Brothers

• Woman is an evil, stupid animal unless educated and civilized to a high degree
• She is incapable of dreaming, thinking, or loving
• Poetry in a woman is only a product of education
• Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are just females
• Inferiority of the female mind to the masculine mind
• The physical beauty of a man is in the upper, nobler parts, while a woman's beauty lies in the lower parts of the body
• As regards to the inferiority of the female mind, consider the self-assurance of a woman, it allows her to be extremely witty with nothing but vivacity and a touch of spontaneity
• Only a man is endowed with the modesty and timidity which a woman lacks and which she only uses as weapons
• Woman: the most beautiful and most admirable of lying machines