Quotes About Expectations

I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.