God has created men with broad chests and shoulders, not broad hips, so that men can understand wisdom. But the place where the filth flows out is small. With women it's the other way around. That's why they have lots of filth and little wisdom.
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"You are an extraordinary creature, being neither God nor man. Perhaps you are the devil himself."
"He who lets himself be led by reason will never escape sin."
"Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?"
"I cannot pray without cursing."
"I am rough, boorish, stormy, and altogether warlike. I am born to fight with devils and factions, and to lay waste the kingdom of Satan."
German theologian whose 95 Theses (1517) launched the Protestant Reformation and broke the Catholic Church's monopoly on Western Christianity. Closely associated with Philipp Melanchthon (Lutheran systematizer) and John Calvin (later Reformer who built on Luther's break). For an intellectual contrast, see Pope Leo X, Renaissance pope (1513-1521) — Leo X's indulgence sales triggered Luther's break and Leo excommunicated him in 1521 — Luther's entire Reformation is structured as a direct answer to the indulgence-funded Vatican Leo represented.
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Luther claims male and female bodies prove men are built for wisdom while women are built for producing waste and nonsense. He points to men's broader chests and shoulders versus women's wider hips as physical evidence that men naturally hold more intelligence and women naturally hold more 'filth.' It is a crude anatomical argument dressing up the view that women are intellectually inferior to men by divine design.
Luther, an Augustinian friar turned reformer, married ex-nun Katharina von Bora and fathered six children, yet his Table Talk is packed with blunt, earthy remarks like this about women, marriage, and the body. He believed wives should bear children and manage the home while men studied scripture and led the church. The quote fits his rough peasant-preacher style and his conviction that gender roles were fixed by God's creation order.
In the early 1500s, humoral medicine and Aristotelian biology taught that women were colder, wetter, and less rational 'defective' versions of men. Universities, pulpits, and guilds were closed to them, and Reformation-era writers debated whether women even had souls equal to men's. Luther spoke during meals recorded by students as Tischreden, where such opinions about anatomy determining intellect were common tavern and scholarly fare, not private outliers.
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