Quote #206684
I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.
Heinrich Heine
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Interpretation
The line is a barbed epigram that plays on the double sense of “character” as both moral steadiness and a performed social persona. By saying women do not lack character but instead have “a new one every day,” the speaker implies volatility, adaptability, or theatrical self-fashioning—traits framed here as a critique rather than praise. Read historically, it fits a long European tradition of misogynistic wit that treats women as changeable and men as stable, using humor to naturalize a gender stereotype. In a modern reading, the remark can also be seen as revealing more about the speaker’s biases and the period’s gender expectations than about women themselves.




