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Quotes About Expectations

Don't sleep next to anything that you wouldn't want to wake up next to. Raise your standards ladies.
~ Unknown
You say you want a Prince, yet you look in the swap amongst the frogs.
~ Unknown
A lady when single and looking for a man puts up a guard to see what man is willing to put in a effort to break her guard down. That's the reason why some lady's are so hard to get. Because they don't want to give a man a chance, and end up wasting their time. But if a man not only tells but shows that he can be the man she's been searching for. Then he'll be given a chance to be in a relationship with her.
~ Bryan Burden
I don't have sex with everybody I date, intimacy changes everything. When sex is part of the conversation then there is a sense of entitlement for that woman.
~ Usher
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
They say real girls ain't never perfect, perfect girls ain't never real.
~ Drake
And why is it that some men just can't deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their respect and still want to be thrown down on the couch and pounded like a cheap steak now and then?
~ Victor Hugo
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.
~ Unknown
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
~ Fay Weldon
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
~ Werner von Braun
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
~ Max Beerbohm
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
~ Anita Brookner
Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
~ Bertrand Russell
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
~ Evan Davis
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
~ Margaret Mead
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
~ Angela Carter
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
~ Madonna
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
~ William Butler Yeats
Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet.
~ Unknown
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
~ Sex and the City
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
~ Barbra Streisand
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.
~ Unknown