What this woman wants, with all due respect to S. Freud, is for men to stop asking that question and to realise that women are human beings, not some alien species. They want the same things men want.  
Diane White

Tenderness, sensitivity, caring and security.
Liz Smith

Freedom from pain, security, creature comforts, and an end to loneliness. When you get down to the basics, it's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory …  
Alice Kahn

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards together in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effort.  
Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Airman's Odyssey

The eyes start love: intimacy perfects it.  
Publilius Syrus - Sententiae

You've been in love; you know what it's like. It's a sense of delight, not just in the person you love, but in all people, in yourself, in life. Suddenly you see beauty, excitement everywhere. You're not afraid to express your love: passionately, gently, in words, or in silence. And you feel strong, generous, fully alive.  
George Weinberg

Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools, favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite De Valois

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation mark! That's basic punctuation that every woman should know.  
Mistinguette (attrib.)

I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wicked desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919) -- I Love You

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.  
Robert Herrick --
To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea!

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.  
Ginger Rogers

Whenever I've needed someone to share my joy, or someone to hold me when my world rips to pieces, you're there. And I know you will be -- tomorrow, always.
Mayav Patel

I love you for the smallest things; bluebells on my desk, a pat on the head when I made an awful speech, a cup of tea in the middle of a deadline panic, being the only one to tell me that the green skirt really does make me look like a sack of potatoes. And the big things; giving me all the best things in your life, sharing my joys, being kind to me in all my failings and giving me courage.  
Helen Thomson

It's nice for me to be me,
It's nice for you to be you,
But it's best for us to be us.
Pam Brown

Why do people stay together? Putting aside 'for the sake of the children', and 'the habit of years' and 'economic reasons' as lawyers' nonsense -- it's not much more-... it's because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.  
Katherine Mansfield - A Married Man's Story

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.  Bertrand Russell

The first time two hearts connect, that is the day to mark and celebrate, for its the birthday of life. The first day of life as it should be! A rebirth and a new vision.
Kathleen Blease

Love is not to be reason'd down, or lost.
In high ambition or a thirst of greatness;
'Tis second life, it grows into the soul
Warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
Joseph Addison

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.  
Mark Twain - Notebook

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean its highest quality. Glamour and jealousy are gone: and the ardent caress, no longer needed, is valueless, compared to the reassuring touch of a trembling hand. Passers-by commonly see little beauty in the embrace of young lovers on a park bench, but the understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
Booth Tarkington

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.  
Henry Ward Beecher