We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?
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?'
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."
'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
As women, we always crave for family and a loving partner and in our quest to find that happy space we overlook a lot of things.
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often it seems that civilization is composed mainly of the things women and children want.
Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.
I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.
Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?
Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused.
No one knows what women want!
Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
I don't want to hear any more women talk about how they want to be... mermaids.
