Quotes About Expectations

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.