“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”
Source: The Bell Jar
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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
[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)
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?
Attributed from posthumous publications
“The woman wants to dominate, the man wants to be dominated”
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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…”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
“Let girls grow up to become woman and make a choice, what they want.”
Source: Genevieve spoke up against early child marriage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqJe9NmaZs/here in "Breaking Views" with UNICEF in 2014.
Can vei la lauzeta mover, line 33; translation by Frederick Goldin, from Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (1983) p. 440.