"On behalf of all those dead who learned their hatred of women long ago, for those who hate them now, for those unborn who shall live to hate them yet, I now declare my firm conviction: neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman."
— Euripides

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
People from AthensPlaywrights from GreecePoets from Greece
Original Language: English

Sources

: Let me tell you, if anyone in the past has spoken ill of women, or speaks so now or will speak so in the future, I’ll sum it up for him: Neither sea nor land has ever produced a more monstrous creature than woman. (tr. Jay Kardan and Laura-Gray Street, 2011, in Didaskalia, vol. 8 no. 32)