In the eighties, when Nietzsche's later writings containing some of the oft-quoted sharp words against women appeared, my husband sometimes told me jokingly not to tell people of my friendly relations with Nietzsche, since this was not very flattering for me. It was just a joke. My husband, like myself, always kept friendly memories of Nietzsche () his behavior precisely towards women was so sensitive, so natural and comradely, that even today in old age I cannot regard Nietzsche as a despiser of women.〔Ida von Miaskowski, cited in S. L. Gilman (Ed.), D. J. Parent (Trans.), ''Conversations with Nietzsche, A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries'', Oxford University Press, 1987, p52〕