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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker claims that women are more savage than men in both love and revenge. Pairing affection with retaliation presents intense feeling as a force that breaks restraint. The statement is a sweeping gender stereotype, expressing the speaker’s judgment rather than establishing a fact about women or men.

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