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First Part · XVIII. Old and Young Women

Woman's riddle and its solution

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Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.

Zarathustra gives pregnancy as the one solution to the riddle of woman.

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What the critics said

Defence of Nietzsche's views on womenAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909judgement

Ludovici argues that hostility to Nietzsche's views on women is a misunderstanding: his doctrine is that the sexes are fundamentally antagonistic and should be kept so, against the democratic levelling that would masculinise women and feminise men, a view Ludovici judges right and just; he adds that the discourse's notorious last line was suggested by a woman.