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Quotes About Expectations

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me
~ Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters.
~ James Hauenstein
Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either.
~ Carrie Fisher
Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?
~ Alice Munro
She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.
~ Kate Pullinger, Weird Sister
Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.
~ Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.
~ Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.
~ Zadie Smith
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man
~ Sheryl Sandberg
There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.
~ Dada Bhagwan
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
~ Shannon L. Alder
EVERYTIMEA GIRL WISHESTOBE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.
~ Ameya Agrawal
Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
~ Carol Shields
I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.
~ Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.
~ Darmie O-Lujon
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
~ Brandi L. Bates, Soledad
Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.
~ Christopher Bollen, Orient
A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.
~ Debasish Mridha
Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.
~ Kameron Hurley, Rapture
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.
~ Tommy Tran
Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early." I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. "Well, a lady isn't exactly what they are expecting.
~ Rumi Antoinette