Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going—that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 267, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 390, "Women's Friendships," (1878).
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