The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

Die große Frage, die nie beantwortet worden ist...ist die: "Was will das Weib?"

Sigmund Freud

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Men and women

Speaker

Sigmund Freud

Statement Type

Question

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Psychologist Writer

From

Austria Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Stated to Marie Bonaparte during their psychoanalytic session. 8 Dec. 1925.

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Because it's there.

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Climbing mountains Mountains Finding one's limits Adventure Challenges
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George Mallory
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The New York Times
Medium
Interview Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1923 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Mallory, George. "Climbing Mount Everest is Work for Supermen." New York Times, 18 Mar. 1923.

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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

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Topic
Sexual revolution Men and women

Author

Midge Decter
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.

Another quote originally in German

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

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Marriage
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Mittler

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Elective Affinities
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Al Michaels

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Topic
Sports
Speaker
Al Michaels
Medium
TV broadcast
Statement Type
Question
Language
English
Time
1980 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Michaels, Al. Spoken at the conclusion of victory by U.S. Olympic ice hockey team. 24 Feb. 1980, Olympic Fieldhouse, Olympic Arena, Lake Placid, NY, USA. ABC television broadcast.