Why We Love Women

{{Short description|Short story anthology by Mircea Cărtărescu}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Why We Love Women

| image = File:DeCeIubimFemeile.jpg

| image_caption = First edition (Romanian)

| author = Mircea Cărtărescu

| title_orig = De ce iubim femeile

| cover_artist = Christian Schad, Self portrait, 1927

| country = Romania

| language = Romanian

| publisher = Humanitas

| pub_date = 2004

| english_pub_date = 25 November 2011

| media_type = Print

| pages = 170

| isbn = 973-50-0869-6

}}

Why We Love Women ({{langx|ro|De ce iubim femeile}}) is a 2004 short story collection by the Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. The twenty stories all have a female protagonist, and had previously been published in the magazine Elle.{{Cite web|last=Sosin|first=Natalia|date=2007-09-14|url=http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/article/22158/mircea-cartarescu-on-men-who-have-something-feminine-about-them.html|title=Mircea Cartarescu on men 'who have something feminine about them'|work=cafebabel.com|publisher=French association Babel International|accessdate=2012-01-01}} The book was published in English in 2011 through University of Plymouth Press.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uppress.co.uk/romanian.htm|title=Romanian Literature|work=uppress.co.uk|publisher=University of Plymouth Press|accessdate=2012-01-01}}