Friedrich Nietzsche in On The Genealogy of Morals, p. 110 (1887)

The desire of the sick to represent some form or other of superiority, their instinct for subterfuge, which leads them to subjugate the healthy - is there any place where it cannot be found, this desire for power of the very weakest? The sick woman especially; no one surpasses her in the subtleties of domineering, oppressing, tyrannizing. The sick woman, moreover, spares nothing, living or dead; she digs up everything, no matter how deeply buried (the Bogos say, 'Woman is a hyena').

— Friedrich Nietzsche on Misogyny

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About Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.