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Quotes About Expectations

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
~ Michael Ian Black
Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.
~ Miuccia Prada
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child.
~ Natalie Dormer
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Instead of taking full advantage of having eight women at once, I spent all my time trying to find a real girlfriend.
~ Nick Heyward
Some romantic you are," Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back."Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?" "They got dropped," Diana said flatly.
~ Nora Roberts
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.
~ Norman Mailer
Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.
~ Paulo Coelho
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.
~ Pete Townshend
Women are using makeup to make their eyes look puffy, their noses look red, and instead of going to the gym, they start their day with a brisk walk of shame.
~ Peter Sagal
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
~ Philip Roth
Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.
~ Poppy Montgomery
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
~ Oscar Wilde
The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.
~ Reese Witherspoon
I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.
~ Robbie Coltraine
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
~ Romola Garai
It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.
~ Rumer Willis
They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both
~ Samuel Butler