“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”
Source: The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath342
American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
[Freud] said once to Marie Bonaparte: 'The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" - Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (Hogarth Press, 1953) by Ernest Jones, Vol. 2, Pt. 3, Ch. 16, p. 421. In a footnote Jones gives the original German, "Was will das Weib?" (cf. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=yhmTi49nf7cC&q=weib)<br>Translated by Gertrud Meili-Dworetzki with the cooperation of Katherine Jones in the German version of Jones book: Das Leben und Werk von Sigmund Freud, Vol. 2, Bern and Stuttgart 1962, p. 493, into: Die große Frage, die nie beantwortet worden ist und die ich trotz dreißig Jahre langem Forschen in der weiblichen Seele nicht habe beantworten können, ist die: 'Was will das Weib? <br class="br">Attributed from posthumous publications
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage