Quotes About Expectations

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.