Quotes About Expectations

Abruptly, she settled down against his shoulder with a little wriggling motion. "I'm getting my wires crossed," she admitted. "In order to get anywhere in this world, a woman is supposed to be feminine and leave the thinking to the males. They like it better that way.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby...

I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be.

children are trained to want to do as the society says they have to do.

When the average person…cannot hide his failure to be his own hero, then he bogs down in the failure of depression and terrible guilt.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

There is not much future in men being friends with a great woman although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and there is usually even less future with truly ambitious women writers.

There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and there is usually even less future with truly ambitious women writers.

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for you to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.

People who interfered with your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for you to conform completely and never differ from some accepted standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boring way there was.

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for your to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.

I gave Brett what for, you know. I said if she would go about with Jews and bull-fighters and such people, she must expect trouble.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

É repreensível para um rapaz de 15 anos fingir ter 18 para poder conduzir um carro ou beber num bar; mas frequentemente o contexto social torna um dever para a mulher fazer-se passar por mais nova ou fisicamente mais sedutora do que na realidade é.

In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones

Once we strayed because marriage was not supposed to deliver love and passion. Today we stray because marriage fails to deliver the love, passion, and undivided attention it promised.

Until now monogamy has been the default setting, and it sits on the premise (however unrealistic) that if you truly love, you should no longer be attracted to others.

No woman should give any man the power to shatter her romantic ideals.

Once divorce carried all the stigma. Now, choosing to stay when you can leave is the new shame.

Almost everywhere people marry, monogamy is the official norm and infidelity the clandestine one.

We blame our partners for failing to make us whole.