Demand Quote by Charles Bukowski

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

— Charles Bukowski

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty…

— Charles Bukowski

Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her…

— Michael Ondaatje

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I…

— Albert Camus

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

— Philippa Gregory

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised…

— Angeles Mastretta

“I seek a woman, the woman of my desires. Who won’t be scared by loyalty and truth, nor turn away from the darkness of…

— Anne de Gandt

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a…

— Christina Aguilera

“They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were dreamer-women. Very dangerous women. Who…

— Taiye Selasi

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have always been drawn to strong and interesting women, people who have navigated that world before you and maintained their integrity and sense…

— Janet McTeer

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

— Diane von Furstenberg