| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 23093 |
| QUOTATION: | 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?” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. quoted in Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 16 (1955).
Quoted from a letter to friend and disciple Marie Bonaparte. Freud’s views on women are summed up in Peter Gay, Freud: A Life of Our Time, pt. 10 (1988). See Wilde on women. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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