The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism

The case is not altered by particular and partial exceptions; taken as a whole, women are, and remain, thorough-going Philistines, and quite incurable.

They are dependent, not upon strength, but upon craft; and hence their instinctive capacity for cunning, and their ineradicable tendency to say what is not true.

Hence, it will be found that the fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice.