Famous quotes containing the word what:
“Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.”
—Théophile Gautier (18111872)
“Psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like, what they need and what they want, essentially because psychology does not know.... this failure is not limited to women; rather, the kind of psychology that has addressed itself to how people act and who they are has failed to understand in the first place why people act the way they do, and certainly failed to understand what might make them act differently.”
—Naomi Weisstein, U.S. psychologist, feminist, and author. Psychology Constructs the Female (1969)