Friday, February 25, 2011

The Goncourt Brothers: "On Female Inferiority"


Rob Edwards

The Goncourt Brothers: “On Female Inferiority” (page 224)

  • Goncourt Brothers – Edmund and Jules, two French writers

  • “Woman is an evil, stupid animal.... she is incapable of dreaming, thinking, or loving.”

  • They can't create any poetry or things of that nature except what they are educated to create

  • The female mind is inherently inferior to the masculine mind

  • Women are also overly self assure, which allows them to be extremely witty with nothing but a little vivacity and a touch of spontaneity.

  • Man on the other hand is endowed with the modest and timidity which woman lacks

  • Women are unbearable if they try to act educated and on the same intellectual level as men


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