>Women are made for the pleasure of men, not for their own happiness
>- Voltaire
Sauce? All I'm seeing is this:
Intellectual Equals: He was deeply influenced by his long-time partner, the brilliant mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet. Upon her death, he famously lamented her as "a great man whose only fault was being a woman," a critique of a society that refused to recognize female genius.
Critique of Subjugation: In his satirical works like Candide and his essay On Adultery, Voltaire routinely mocked the double standards of men and criticized social constructs that treated women like property or restricted their autonomy.
Famous Paradoxical Quote: While Voltaire wrote extensively about human happiness, his actual most famous quote regarding the sexes leans in the opposite direction of the fake quote: "All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women."