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Quotes About Expectations

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
~ Jane Austen
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.
~ George Bernard Shaw
And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
~ Jane Austen
If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.
~ Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that the public expects the full-meal deal.
~ Venita Ellick
If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?
~ Venita Ellick
She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?
~ Florence Falk
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
~ Kyos Magupe
Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.
~ Patrick Marber, Closer
Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Story goes that he wanted many things from one women, and she wanted one thing from many men.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
~ Simone Weil
You cannot wear every expectation. Consider putting aside ones that don't fit.
~ Bozena Zawisz
It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
~ Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.
~ Brene Brown