Better than man doth woman understand children, but man is more childish than woman.
 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation

add
Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Source Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic understanding women
Date 1891
Language English
Reference
Note Translated By Thomas Common
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm

Context

“Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. Too sweet fruits—these the warrior liketh not. Therefore liketh he woman;—bitter is even the sweetest woman. Better than man doth woman understand children, but man is more childish than woman. In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanteth to play. Up then, ye women, and discover the child in man! A plaything let woman be, pure and fine like the precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.” source