Quote #128521
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The remark frames gender difference as a deliberate “riddle” built into creation: women are cast as an enigma that humbles male certainty and punctures the assumption that men can fully define or master women through reason, custom, or authority. By attributing the “enigma” to the Almighty, the line uses theological irony to critique masculine intellectual pride—suggesting that whatever men claim to know, there remains a domain (women’s inner lives, motives, autonomy) that resists their categories. Read in a modern light, it can be taken as both a sardonic compliment to women’s complexity and a satire of the habit of treating women as mysterious rather than as fully knowable individuals.




