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Quotes About Expectations

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.
~ Unknown
I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba- uh, goodnight.
~ Dan Castellaneta
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your feet.
~ Unknown
All married women are not wives.
~ Japanese Proverb
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
~ Deborah Kerr
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
~ Dennis Prager
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
~ Fanny Brice
Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
~ Erica Jong
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
~ Bill Maher
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
~ Mae West
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
~ Naomi Wolf
If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?
~ Bill Maher
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
~ Unknown
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
~ Margaret Mead
Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.
~ Naomi Weisstein
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
~ Dave Barry
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
~ Unknown
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.
~ Garrison Keillor
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
~ Ann Oakley
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
~ Theodor Reik