Ocupation: Philologist
Life: October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900
Birthday: October 15
Death: August 25
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics
topic: Women, Bird, Savages, Fly Away