After a lonely decade in his mountaintop cave, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra descends from the clouds to reveal the fruits of his meditations to the intellectually impoverished masses. In the section ‘On Little Old and Young Women’ he shares his insights on females:
“Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman has one solution—that is pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man?
“A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly …