In the three or four civilized countries of Europe by a few centuries of education one can make women into anything one wants, even into men: not, of course, in the sexual sense but in every other sense. Through this regimen they will one day have acquired all the masculine strengths and virtues, although by the same token they will have had to take on all their weakness and vices […] But how shall we endure the intermediate stage, which may last a few centuries, during which the female follies and injustices, their primeval inheritance, still assert themselves over what has been newly learned and acquired? This will be the age when the actual masculine affect will be anger: anger at the fact that all the arts and sciences have been deluged und suffocated by an unheard-of dilettantism, philosophy talked to death by mind-bewildering babble, politics more fantastic and partisan than ever, society in full dissolution because the custodians of traditional morality have become ludicrous to themselves and are striving in every way to stand outside morality. For if women possessed their greatest power in custom, for what, when they have abandoned custom, will they have to grasp to again obtain a comparable abundance of power? (Human, All Too Human no. 425)
