This is complete cut and paste. Source is posted below:
Nahjul Balagha is perhaps the most respected book by most Shias after the Qur'an, and has a famous sermon about women (Sermon 79), that people try to explain away in various ways, even if I don't really see the need for it. I thought it would be interesting to search through it to see what other statements could be found about women, and this is what I found:
Saying 61 Woman is a scorpion whose grip is sweet.
Saying 102 Your society will pass through a period when cunning and crafty intriguers will be favoured by status, when profligates will be considered as well-bred, well-behaved and elegant elites of the society, when just and honest persons will be considered as weaklings, when charity will be considered as a loss to wealth and property, when support and help to each other will be considered as favour and benevolence and when prayers and worship to Allah will be taken up for the sake of show to gain popularity and higher status, at such times regimes will be run under the advice of women and the youngsters will be the rulers and counselors of the State.
Saying 123 Jealousy in woman is kufr but in man it is a imaan.
Saying 135 The Jihad of a woman is to afford pleasant company to her husband.
Sermon 13 You were the army of a woman and in the command of a quadruped. When it grumbled you responded, and when it was wounded (hamstrung) you fled away. Your character is low and your pledge is broken. Your faith is hypocrisy.
[Note that the Prophet's said "That people who assigned their affairs (of state) to a woman would never prosper", which is probably the reference to being 'the army of a woman']
Sermon 79
O' ye peoples! Women are deficient in Faith, deficient in shares and deficient in intelligence. As regards the deficiency in their Faith, it is their abstention from prayers and fasting during their menstrual period. As regards deficiency in their intelligence it is because the evidence of two women is equal to that of one man. As for the deficiency of their shares that is because of their share in inheritance being half of men.
So beware of the evils of women. Be on your guard even from those of them who are (reportedly) good. Do not obey them even in good things so that they may not attract you to evils.
Sermon 152
Beasts are concerned with their bellies. Carnivores are concerned with assaulting others. Women are concerned with the adornments of this ignoble life and the creation of mischief herein. (On the other hand) believers are humble, believers are admonishers and believers are afraid (of Allah).
Sermon 155
As regards a certain woman, she is in the grip of womanly views, and malice is boiling in her bosom like the furnace of the blacksmith.
Sermon 185
He [Allah] is that which does not change or vanish. The process of setting does not behove Him. He has not begotten any one lest He be regarded as having been born. He has not been begotten otherwise He would be contained within limits. He is too High to have sons. He is too purified to contact women. Imagination cannot reach Him so as to assign Him quantity.
Letter 14
[At Siffin Imam Ali Úáíå ÇáÓáÇã gave the following instructions to his soldiers before the battle.]
If Allah favours you with success and inflicts defeat to the enemy, then do not attack those who have surrendered, do not injure the disabled and weak, do not assault the wounded, do not excite women and do not make them angry with rude behaviour even if they use harsh and insulting words against your commander and officers because they are physically and mentally weak and get excited easily and frightened quickly.
Letter 31
[After returning from the Battle of Siffin, Imam Ali Úáíå ÇáÓáÇã gave certain pieces of advice to one of his sons. Some historians consider him to be Imam Hasan Úáíå ÇáÓáÇã while others are of the opinion that he was Muhammad Hanafiya. He wrote them in the form of a will. They deal
with almost every aspect of life which goes a long way to make a man successful in life -brave, humane, generous, virtuous and pious.]
Do not seek the advice of women, their verdicts are often immature and incorrect and their determinations are not firm. You must guard and defend them and act as a shelter to protect them from impious and injurious surroundings and infamous sights, this kind of shelter will keep them well-protected from every harm. Their contact with a vicious and sinful atmosphere (even with all the shelter that you can provide) is going to prove more harmful than being left with protection. Do not let them interfere with affairs where you cannot personally guide or protect them. Do not let them aspire for things which are beyond their capacities. They are more like decoration to humanity and are not made to rule and govern humanity. Exhibit reasonable interest in things which they desire and give importance to them, but do not let them influence your opinions and do not let them impel you to go against your sane views.
Source: http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/234998183-women-in-nahjul-balagha/
The true Emam Ali in the Louvre (above) is very different from the nice pic we used to see in Ali Agha's "baghali." Even our intellectuals praised his brutality and savageness. No wonder we are where we are...
Daaaang!!! I wonder if Eue hefner has taken a look at this ...maybe there is a way to make afew bucks off of it.
By the by, i personally have no objections to be part of that malice that is boling out of her bossoms. No sireee. the hotter , the merrier.
Maan. There is so much respect for women in this religion which makes you wonder those who have recently convreted , knew what the f...they were doing or what?