Quotes About Expectations

After he was born, the midwife said, "Boys wreck your house, girls wreck your head." Archie seemed intent on doing both.

People have the wrong idea about fairy tales, they think they're about being rescued by handsome princes, whereas really they're like Girl Guide handbooks.

She had taken an almost instant dislike to him over a dinner at Nopi which, when the bill arrived, he had been more than happy to go Dutch on, thereby failing one of her first requirements of a suitor, which was to behave like a gentleman. She wanted doors opening, meals paid for, flowers. Billets-doux (lovely words, made her think of doves – bill and coo). She wanted to be courted. Gallantry. What a lovely word.

It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.