Top 100 A Woman Wants Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Have my cubs' is not the first thing a woman wants to hear.
Milly Taiden
#4. 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
#5. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. Thomas
Liane Moriarty
#6. They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.
Leslie Mann
#7. A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
John Eldredge
#8. What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
Charles Bukowski
#9. If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
Oscar Wilde
#10. A lot of men wonder what a woman wants. The answer is power. There are many ways to get it, but the easiest way is to tear other girls down. Any girl can play that game, but there's no way to win, except not to play at all.
Mara Wilson
#11. When a woman wants to look festive, she should add some shine, sheen or sparkle to her outfit, like a metallic clutch, an embellished shoe, or a blingy statement necklace.
Clinton Kelly
#12. He was too damned grateful to have her. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence.
Liane Moriarty
#13. If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
Harriet Quimby
#14. 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
#15. Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?
John Eldredge
#16. It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
Jack Nicholson
#17. How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking.
Robert Jordan
#18. The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Criss Jami
#19. 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
#20. When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
Honore De Balzac
#21. If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.
Roxane Gay
#22. 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
#23. A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -
Jon Krakauer
#24. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
Kate O'Mara
#25. Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
Samuel Beckett
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#29. I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.
Reese Witherspoon
#30. This harkens back to Freud's famous question, "What does woman want?" As Epstein answers, "She wants a partner who cares what she wants.
Daniel Goleman
#31. We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders
J. Jack Halberstam
#32. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.
Neal Stephenson
#33. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.
Jaha Knight
#34. A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
Lucille Kallen
#35. There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
Anthony Powell
#36. An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
Paul Valery
#37. If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it!
Thiruman Archunan
#38. 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
#39. When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes fashion.
Oscar De La Renta
#40. 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
#41. A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.
Jennifer Lawrence
#42. 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
#43. The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#44. Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.
Stacy Schiff
#45. It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.
Apolo Ohno
#46. For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
Bipasha Basu
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.
Edith Wharton
#50. The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
David Lee Roth
#51. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
Andrea Riseborough
#53. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. Jakes
#54. Personally, I find the idea that women are supposed to "love" shopping bizarre - nearly every woman I know wants to cry after 45 minutes of trawling the high street looking for a shirt and hits the gin with alacrity upon the sad occasions when jeans have to be found.
Caitlin Moran
#55. 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
#56. I learned a long time ago, sometimes it's easier to tell a woman what she wants to hear. She won't listen to a word you say if it ain't what she wants to hear.
Shamara Ray
#57. There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes.
Edward Stein
#58. The woman is scared, wearing her self-confidence like perfume: a heavy, sultry scent to distract onlookers from the broken, blackened pieces of herself she wants no one else to see.
Menna Van Praag
#59. 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
#60. I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
Tawakkol Karman
#61. 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
#63. Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.
Rupert Everett
#64. My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be.
Sonia Rykiel
#65. There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.
Brad Paisley
#66. When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Philippa Gregory
#67. As for Chicks with Daddy Issues: Do I really want to be with a Woman who wants to be my Father?
Josh Stern
#68. I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
Dakota Johnson
#69. The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Madame De Stael
#70. Give the woman what she wants and maybe her rebellion will subside and she will get down to the business of being a human incubator!
Natasha Anders
#71. I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.
Ali Larter
#72. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
Honore De Balzac
#73. We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
Judy Garland
#77. Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But
overdo it, and no one wants very much of you.
Lisa Kleypas
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
Oprah Winfrey
#81. 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
#82. There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.
Alana De La Garza
#83. It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.
Ethan Hawke
#84. When a woman singles me out"- he leaned down to murmer at my ear- "it's because she wants to get fucked. She looks at the scars and tattoos and knows she'll get fucked hard"
I gasped, melting for him.
"is that what you wanted from me, Natalya"?
Kresley Cole
#86. 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
#87. A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves
Greg Behrendt
#88. I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.
Cindy Margolis
#89. Why exactly do you go to yoga classes? You're such a calm, well-balanced person, and a woman who knows what she wants. Aren't you wasting your time? My heart starts beating again. I don't answer. I simply smile and stroke his face.
Paulo Coelho
#90. 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
#91. Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#92. A bitch is a woman who gets what she wants.
Leah Raeder
#93. I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.
Anna Camp
#94. Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
James Thurber
#95. It is merely the egoism of men, 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. Can you deny that our Christina world is rotting?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#96. There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
Philip Roth
#97. I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Every woman who's met you wants a shot at you. How could you ever think you're the consolation prize?
Jamie McGuire
#98. Elena: I guess a dying woman can be stupid if she wants. I'm crazy about you, Archangel. You scare the shit out of me at times, but I want to dance with you anyway.
Nalini Singh
#99. The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.
R. Heber Newton
#100. Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
Antony Hegarty
