Quotes About Expectations

I nodded, completely understanding his desire to get away from people, especially people who were judging your ability to do your job when they really had zero idea what that job entailed.

Man must work, she might well have said, and woman must not weep.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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

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

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

When you are depressed, believing you have failed at something regularly referred to as 'the plan of happiness' can very quickly generate despair.

The idea that mothers and daughters can say everything to each other is a myth.

You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways

It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before.

had shocked him into speechlessness to realize that down-and-outs in New Jersey expected to have more in the way of amenities than coal miners and sharecroppers in most of West Virginia, and that people in the North believed that there was no one, anywhere, who still had to go out in the cold in the middle of the winter to use a chemical latrine.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Almost I took you as husband, love. Then you left me. I took surprise for husband instead.

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

Wounded, narcissistic parents may need a grateful child. A father who was unpopular or clumsy as a child may need an athlete. A parent afraid of his or her own anger may need an acting-out child. The real child, the child who was meant to grow and develop into a self in his or her own right, is often never seen. Even if Joan's interest had been in science or math, her mother needed a dancer—and children will make every effort to be what is expected of them.