# Aphorism 139 explained — Beyond Good and Evil

> Chapter companion for Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

## What happens

A single, sharp aphorism contrasting the nature of women with that of men, specifically in the realms of revenge and love, where women are posited as more barbarous.

## Key lines

> In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Women exhibit a more primal, untamed ferocity than men do in matters of both vengeance and romantic passion.

_The statement presents a psychological generalization about gender, suggesting a fundamental, 'barbarous' drive underlying female behavior in these specific emotional domains._

## Links

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