Women have always thought and do so by nature. They think humorously or profoundly, spontaneously or systematically, cautiously or boldly - just as it corresponds to their individual personality. They reflect on men and women, on marriage and love, on childhood and old age, on birth and death, and now and then even on household chores and laundry - essentially everything that makes human life worth living and which male philosophers rarely ponder. This volume gathers stimulating and entertaining quotes from wise women from the intellectual and geographical context of Weimar: from Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach to the women of the classics and romantics, up to Marlene Dietrich and Sibylle Berg.