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Quotes About Expectations

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
~ Jimmy Connors
I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.
~ Jane Wyman
Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.
~ Reese Witherspoon
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
~ Kim Gordon
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
~ Caitlin Moran
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
~ Carrie Coon
Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.
~ Tim Allen
Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
~ Charlize Theron
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
~ Amber Heard
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
~ Libba Bray
Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.
~ James Thurber
Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.
~ Ariel Winter
Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
~ Carol Alt
Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.
~ Caroline Criado-Perez
Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
~ Cat Deeley
My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.
~ Romeo Santos
It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!
~ Christopher
You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?
~ Demi Moore