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Quotes About Desire

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
~ Edward Abbey
All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!
~ Edward Abbey
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
~ Eliza Coupe
The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.
~ Elizabeth Hawes
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
~ Émile Zola
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
~ Emily VanCamp
I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.
~ Eminem
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.
~ Fay Weldon
In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.
~ Fred Allen
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.
~ Gena Showalter
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
~ George Chapman
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
~ George D. Prentice
Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.
~ George Meyer
How can I ever miss you when you never go away?
~ Gloria Jones
There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.
~ Harry Wayne Casey
I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.
~ Heidi Julavits
Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
~ Henry Rollins
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
~ Hillary Clinton
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
~ Honore de Balzac