Top 100 A Man Wants A Woman Quotes
#1. A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.
Helen Andelin
#2. Why do men like a woman to give up control? What is it about the lack of control that men like so much?" "It's not that they like a lack of control. But a man wants a woman who gives herself to him. He wants a woman to melt into his arms, to get aroused from a kiss on the back of her neck,
Lauren Blakely
#3. A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.
Debasish Mridha
#4. We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
Susan B. Anthony
#5. There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
Philip Roth
#6. No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.
Winston Graham
#7. Contrary to what most women think, men want a lot more than just sex. A man wants to make a difference in a woman's life and make her happy.
Linda Alfiori
#8. Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
James Thurber
#9. It's the song of a man trying to forget a woman, but then he realizes it's impossible, that not being with her is harmful and he dies of despair, not knowing whether she still wants to be with him.
Amanda Laneley
#10. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
Barbra Streisand
#11. I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.
Jason Momoa
#12. You? A man? Wants to come shopping with a woman? For clothes?"
"Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes." He shuddered. "For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I'll gladly accompany you.
Lauren Dane
#13. A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves
Greg Behrendt
#14. The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
Al Goldstein
#15. What a woman wants above all things, Nick, is to believe herself the most important consideration in the world, the center of a man's universe.
Victoria Vane
#17. It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#18. You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's got her, only a man who thinks the world of women can get rid of her without humiliating her.
W. Somerset Maugham
#19. Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
E.W. Howe
#20. No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.
George Weinberg
#21. It's good for him. No man should get every woman he wants. Keeps their douchebaggery to a tolerable level.
Jamie McGuire
#22. Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.
Plautus
#23. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk.
C.S. Lewis
#24. When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? ... The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty ...
W.E.B. Du Bois
#25. When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart.
Yolanda Joe
#26. A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#27. Woman on this goddamned earth wants a man like that to feel like that about them and you had it and you fuckin' tossed it away like it was garbage.
Kristen Ashley
#28. And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They're not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they're pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be ...
Gillian Flynn
#29. Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie
#30. A man wants to pick up a woman. A woman just wants to be swept off her feet.
Jenna Alatari
#31. Having had that experience ... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
Tom Selleck
#32. Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.
Jane Green
#33. There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
D.H. Lawrence
#34. And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
#35. Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons.
- Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.
Karen Hawkins
#36. With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.
D.H. Lawrence
#37. As long as she doesn't turn too smart for men
For the stupid ones, she will, Madame. But who wants them anyway? A stupid man is every woman's' downfall.
Nina George
#38. I tried, Tess. I really did. I did everything you asked of me. I did everything a man in love would do for his woman. But you don't want me and my beast no longer wants to hurt you. Whatever we had ... it's lost.
Pepper Winters
#39. In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
Honore De Balzac
#40. Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.
Lee Nichols
#41. When a man says to a woman, "You are my anima," she should quickly scream and run out of the room. The word anima has neither the greatness of the Woman with Golden Hair nor the greatness of an ordinary woman, who wants to be loved as a woman.
Robert Bly
#42. I am also writing this for any man who wants to understand what a woman - a colleague, wife, mother, or daughter - is up against so that he can do his part to build an equal world. This
Sheryl Sandberg
#43. A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
Barbara Cartland
#44. Every woman wants a man who can ruin her lipstick and not her mascara.
Habeeb Akande
#45. When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#46. If a woman love you, truly loves you, baby, she lets you be the man you have to be. She doesn't change you into the man she wants you to be.
Kristen Ashley
#47. A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#48. Talking about feelings to a man will feel like work. When he's with a woman, he wants it to feel like fun.
Sherry Argov
#49. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn't it?
Harper Lee
#50. There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.
Homer Hickam
#51. How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Anais Nin
#52. A real man wants to know how to make his woman moan and takes up the challenge of keepin' that up and makin' it better
Kristen Ashley
#53. Now I have a theory that if a woman wants to keep a man she only needs to say two things: She believes in him and he's got a big a cock. That's all it takes. It doesn't even have to be true.
Ethan Hawke
#54. London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.
Louis Kronenberger
#55. A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.
Clive James
#56. Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.
Emma Goldman
#57. A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.
Debasish Mridha
#58. I'm in love with a man who can't be honest with his family or anyone in his life outside of this penthouse. I desire a woman I barely know but crave more than I can understand. On top of that, the man I love wants her too, and it makes me want her more, if possible. How is any of this practical?
Amelia LeFay
#59. No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Harry Burns
#60. War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
Samuel Ibn Naghrillah
#61. No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#62. Adam laughed. Son, in time you'll understand that every man has to have a girly conversation with his woman whether he wants to or not. His survival depends on his willingness to accept it with good grace.
Maya Banks
#63. No man wants to sleep with a woman. He wants to fuck her. And nobody forces me to do shit.
Karen Marie Moning
#64. If you're being the woman God wants you to be and a man still doesn't respect you, surely that isn't the man God has for you. Always hold to the standard of respect you deserve and a great man will easily recognize the caliber of woman you are and treat you accordingly.
Stephan Labossiere
#65. I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That's cool. But, I really don't get how there's only two choices. There's no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don't get it.
Kate Bornstein
#66. I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
Alex Pettyfer
#67. Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't.
Chloe Thurlow
#68. Christine: There's something really romantic about that. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body. But what if you meet her, and you don't think she's attractive?
Lincoln: I don't think I care what she looks like.
Rainbow Rowell
#69. I'm here because you're here. When a man loves a woman, he wants to spend time with her. Even if that means he has to put on a suit and tie. He wants to hold her tight and smell her hair.
Rachel Gibson
#70. I want Little Noah looking like a beat-up mess by the time he's eighteen."
"Why?"
"Cause no woman wants a delicate man. He needs to be sporting at least five scars.
S. Walden
#71. Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs
Samantha Gregory
#72. A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
Marlo Thomas
#73. A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.
Barbra Streisand
#75. 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.
Sylvia Plath
#76. Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Pope Paul VI
#77. What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
Charles Bukowski
#78. I tell you, I will never understand the mystery of love. A woman comes to a man because she wants only him; then she cannot bear the sound of air moving in and out of his nostrils. She cannot bear the sight of his shadow upon the pavement!
Elizabeth Berg
#79. Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. What was it about her that drove him crazy? He'd never had such a wild and instantaneous reaction to a woman before.
T.A. Grey
#80. When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart.
Emma Forrest
#81. If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
Oscar Wilde
#82. Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
George Jean Nathan
#83. I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
Dakota Johnson
#84. When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Philippa Gregory
#85. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man
or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison
#86. Contrary to popular opinion, a man can shut love out if he wants to. But to do so, he must free himself not only from the woman who has bewitched him but also from the third person in the story, the ghost who has put temptation in his way.
Orhan Pamuk
#87. A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always wants to see more. A woman understands darkness and shadows
Richard Melo
#88. The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
Alec Waugh
#89. The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Madame De Stael
#90. No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
Elizabeth Peters
#91. No man wants to give a woman the power to crush his ego, and baby, I hate to tell you this, because I like that you don't realize how beautiful you are, but you are the kind of woman that could make a man feel like he has it all or make him feel like he has absolutely nothing.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#92. 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
Orhan Pamuk
#93. A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being under such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.
Jane Austen
#94. Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland
#95. I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you."
"The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?"
"A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman.
Renee Ahdieh
#96. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. Jakes
#97. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
Rainbow Rowell
#98. A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water. And while it's all very nice to know that a woman has a mind, literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed.
Henry Miller
#99. I thought women liked to be thought strange and mysterious." "No, they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel.
Harper Lee
#100. A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.
Anandamayi Ma
