[christopherolah]

I just read the Wikipedia entry for his views on woman. There's an interesting part at the end:

After the elderly Schopenhauer sat for a sculpture portrait by Elisabet Ney, he told Richard Wagner's friend Malwida von Meysenbug, "I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man."

He might be a misogynist, but at least he recognised exceptions.

It's also interesting (in the context of his time) to note that he was a strong supporter of abolitionism and animal rights.