Nietzsche`s views on women have long been considered one of the most problematic aspects of his thought. Very often in his work did he disparage women as cunning, seductive, and disguising, while simultaneously celebrating them as mysteriously powerful. Nietzsche`s use of woman as a metaphor for his main philosophical issues such as truth, life, and abyss, has also caused an ongoing controversy among feminists, and readings of Nietzsche`s `woman` have been sharply divided into two directions so far: an essentialist one that reads him as a blatant misogynist, and an anti-essentialist one that interprets his metaphor in a wider context of his perspectivism. This paper examines Nietzsche`s `woman` metaphor and his views on women within his philosophy. To interpret his `woman` from a native essentialist point of view leads to misunderstanding his philosophical ambition to debunk the fictionality of `truth` and other conventional philosophical concepts including `unity,` `essence,` `meaning.` Nietzsche`s use of `woman` as a single metaphor for all those apparently heterogeneous philosophical concepts exemplifies well how the `woman` metaphor operates on a linguistic and discursive level, not referring to women in reality. However, an ethical question is still left unresolved in his metaphorical appropriation and its consequent violence on real women.