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he was writing in 1850, and his views on women are colored by the fact that I think he was asexual at a time when that was not even understood. he gives the women props as to what he sees as their gifts, but he definitely still was working through a prism of prejudice on that front. he did say that as a whole, a woman is greater than a man.
"I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the masses, or rather raising herself above the masses, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man."
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