Quotes About Expectations

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.