“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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Charles Bukowski555
American writer 1920–1994Related 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
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
“The woman wants to dominate, the man wants to be dominated”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
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Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 220
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
“She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants…”
Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“Let girls grow up to become woman and make a choice, what they want.”
Genevieve Nnaji (1979) Nigerian actress, producer, and director
Source: Genevieve spoke up against early child marriage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqJe9NmaZs/here in "Breaking Views" with UNICEF in 2014.
Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
Letter to his daughter Constance de Maistre, Lettres, 146
Letters
“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist