so-called "weaker sex" is devoted a lot of poems and songs, novels and short stories, and of course, aphorisms.Statements about the woman dared to ascetic Indian yoga, oriental sages and medieval monks, admired Provencal poets and the titans of the Renaissance.She got it "to nuts" for levity and love of jewelry and its inventor thought evil temptress and who destroy the human race.But she - Eve, Pandora, a woman with a capital letter, and beloved friend - valued, respected, revered."Second Sex" is not only exploited and suppressed, but thought better and more perfect than men.Consider also the most intelligent remarks about women.
what to say about them in the Muslim East
accepted Islam, Confucianism, and Indian culture contemptuously refer to the "weaker sex."Of course, this perception of women there is present, but does European civilization was not mizoginichna before feminism was born.Moreover, the most beautiful expressions of the women belong to it oriental poets.The queen in a chess game of love, the most perfect creation of God, burning heart raised eyebrows - that says about wanting temptress Omar Khayyam.He repeatedly said that a woman is as much wisdom, as in the book, but in this and in another case, to understand the writing, you have to be literate.Bedouin Rudaki no favorite in heaven wants to close his eyes to not see anything around.And the Afghan poet Jami did not even mind to call him pretty tiresome dog, but would chose it among others buzz about her.
statements about a woman in ancient times
Greeks do not really appreciate their beautiful girlfriends.They kept them locked up in a separate house - Hynek and joked about the fact that a woman is good only twice in his life - on the marriage and on his deathbed.They fear their loved ones.Even Socrates said that the attraction to the female beauty like poison, but more dangerous.After all, this poison pleasant.But the Athenian tragedian Euripides advised never to trust women.Even if they tell the truth.Most of the ancient Greek sages believed misfortune women, a trap for men.Therefore, in order to assess the intelligence and beauty of the "weaker sex" in the ancient world, it is necessary to appeal to him to representatives themselves.Sappho, a poet from Lesbos, managed in the most amazing expressions to glorify women as the ideal of beauty, mind and senses.The cult of Aphrodite, which is professed in the circle of this amazing and wise Greek woman, gave birth to beautiful literary images of girls.Here is one of them, though rosy moon, which, going, overshadows all the stars shine among others, making them invisible.Gentle foot swan neck, wonderful hair, figure, like the golden flower - more than fine words dedicated to the female sex, hard to find in Greek literature and philosophy.
«The Art of Love" and troubadours
In the Middle Ages, the first woman in Europe to make a real queen of poetry.Creators of all countries - troubadours, trouveres, minnesingers - excitedly sang unattainable lady whim they rushed to perform on demand.They belong to the great statements about the woman.The lady, mistress - a supreme being, which is the meaning of life for her courtly minister.The desire for it is not in the possession of, and in the improvement of the soul and the ideal relationship.Dame to serve, and only she decides how close can go to her lover, and he is worthy of her attention.She - a real lady, Ms. She is wise and beautiful.Inaccessible Light, "love from afar" - this is the most common words that are dedicated to a loved one.Interestingly, ideal for men of that time was a married woman, not a girl, because, according to the poets, she is at a higher level of intellectual and spiritual development.
What philosophers say?
wise sayings of the woman appeared not so long ago.Philosophers, as a rule, too, were convinced that the representative of the "second floor" can be smart, but not brilliant, and that the worst insult for her - to call it ugly.So even thought these bright minds, Kant and Hegel.But the closer to the present, the more critical approach to getting such an attitude to the female sex.Samuel Johnson said that since writing about the beautiful half of humanity mostly men, that they attribute to her as their own misfortunes and sorrows of the world.Some philosophers even surpass poets in his words about women.For example, Max Weber said that a man, of course, can be very eloquent.Even more than the woman.But he will never be able to say as much as say her eyes, and never will achieve this diversity.
poet and writer on women
Who wrote them better than anyone else?Of course, writers and skillfully owning a word poets, who showed to the world the most beautiful expressions of a woman."Their intuitiveness and ability to lightning guess is much more accurate than the self-confidence of men" - claimed Rudyard Kipling.And Balzac said that women are much better and more devoted love.She always looked forward to the last, and to kill this belief, you do not just hit the dagger.And then, a woman will love to the last drop of blood.Even Nietzsche, who was both a poet and a philosopher, paid the fair sex a few good words.Although he was known as a hater of the fair sex, nevertheless agreed that the loving heart of a woman is ready for any sacrifice, and everything else does not represent value for him.And Leo Tolstoy accuses men that they require from their loved ones as every virtues they do not possess and which do not deserve.
What do they say about themselves
great statements about women can not overshadow the fact that they think of themselves.No wonder some of the famous people said that no man is able to understand what the representative thinks "the weaker sex", and can not appreciate it.It needs to be it.The way it is.The writer Virginia Woolf No wonder they say that for a very long time, the woman was a mirror for men.Only reflects his deceptive.The figure of the man in the mirror seemed so twice more than he actually is.A feminist Lisa Kremer pointed out that women constitute the majority of people living on the globe.Only there it is, unfortunately, on the rights of minorities.Some famous ladies complain that disappeared romantic troubadour poetry in our world.Because now is the time managers.A woman is one of those beings whose vocation - to reign, not rule.At least, so says Delphine de Girardin.
