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Quotes About Expectations

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man
~ Juanita M. Kreps
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...
~ Julie Burchill
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
~ Karl Kraus
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
~ Charles Baudelaire
She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.
~ Dan Fogelberg
I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up
~ Daphne Zuniga
All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.
~ David Weber
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.
~ Dorothy Parker
It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be
~ Edith Wharton
The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
~ Frank Pittman
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
~ Franz Grillparzer
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
~ George Bernard Shaw
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
~ Gloria Steinem
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
~ Lupe Fiasco
If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.
~ Mark Twain
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
~ Albert Camus
A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.
~ Anna Biller
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
~ Barack Obama
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
~ Bernie Mac
I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.
~ Beyonce Knowles
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
~ Candace Bushnell