are eight kinds. To listen to a
woman and enjoy her conversation is one kind; to speak about a woman is
another kind; to whisper to her privately is a third kind; to keep
something belonging to a woman and enjoy it is a fourth kind; to touch
her is a fifth.
- Just see the bewitching power of women! I mean the women who are the
embodiment of avidya, the power of delusion. They fool men, as it were.
They take away their inner substance. When I see a man and woman sitting
together, I say to myself, "Alas, they are done for!"
- If I touch a woman my hand becomes numb; it aches. If in a friendly
spirit I approach a woman and begin to talk to her, I feel as if a
barrier had been placed between us. It is impossible for me to cross
that barrier. If a woman enters my room when I am alone, at once I
become like a child and regard her as my mother.
ON WOMEN by Schopenhauer
Better than Schiller's well-meditated poem, "The Dignity of Women,"
effective though it be by means of antithesis and contrast, these few
words of Jouy's express in my opinion, the true praise of women:
"Without women, the beginning of our life should be without any help,
the middle without pleasure, and the end without solace". Byron
expresses the same more pathetic
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