Die Antifeministen Quotes

“It is irrelevant whether I am male, female or neither – gender is a private matter. First and foremost, I am an individual, and my value as a human being rests on this individuality.”
― Hedwig Dohm, The Antifeminists. A Book of Vindication. Women, Men and Misogyny in the Age of Nietzsche

“Ich habe nie begreifen können, warum gerade diejenigen Männer, die der Frau am energischsten den Verstand absprechen, ihr am eifrigsten die Erziehung der Kinder aufhalsen.”
― Hedwig Dohm, Die Antifeministen: Ein Buch der Verteidigung

“Über die Altgläubigen ist nicht viel zu sagen. Die Majorität aller Menschen gehört zu ihnen. Diese Vielen nennen die Gewohnheit ihre Amme, die sie von der Wiege bis zum Grabe sicher nährt.”
― Hedwig Dohm, Die Antifeministen: Ein Buch der Verteidigung

“They give me a husband and say: That’s who you are! They give me a home and say: That’s who you are! They give me a child and say: That’s who you are! But somehow or other I may lose these chattels and will be left behind – alone, without external embellishments; and like a bare tree in winter, I must be able to replenish my foliage by drawing nourishment from my own roots.”
― Hedwig Dohm, The Antifeminists. A Book of Vindication. Women, Men and Misogyny in the Age of Nietzsche

“What is in my power to be, I want to become. But they want to knead me into the solid mass of a preordained female essence instead, force me with naïve brutality into a generic type, like an animal representing its genus and not being seen as an individual specimen. One donkey may be more or less the same as another, but one woman is not the same as the next. Women are as different from each other as men. What one woman forcefully rejects another yearns for with equal force. I may aspire to study a particular subject or to make millions in business, either way, it is a violation to have these roles stricken from the repertoire of my life.”
― Hedwig Dohm, The Antifeminists. A Book of Vindication. Women, Men and Misogyny in the Age of Nietzsche