Quotes About Expectations

I say to you, daughter, reconsider your glorious resolve, for surely the role of a woman is to give birth, not to throw bombs.

Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed

In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.

To be valued as a member of masculine Moroccan society, a man is expected to put in his time sitting, thinking, talking, or doing nothing at all.

Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.

Sometimes, our best just isn't good enough ? not for those around us, not for those who love us, not for ourselves.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.

That's all this job is, Daine, she explained. Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away? Alex wanted to know. You didn't see anything strange? Alanna didn't look up. No. It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.

Daine: Master Stefan?...D'you ever want to run with the herd? To just--be a horse? Do what the herd does Stefan: Course I do,..Don't everybody? Daine: What keeps you from doing it? Stefan: He rubbed his strawlike hair. I'm a man. I can't be runnin' with the herd, now can I?

Most girls your age worry about husbands, not the redistribution of lightning

They aren't expected to understand one another, he replied. The women will learn to flirt over a friend's shoulder, instead of close. The men will see the women as distant and unknowable. Their friends will be only men. The women will see men as strong and unknowable. Their friends will be only women.

Why is it," cried the young woman in obvious chagrin, "everyone believes a plain girl will leap at the first man who wants her?

If you are a man, you will do it." "Oh no, lady. Only if I am your notion of a man.

You are being veey demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisy yoy? You really should have stayed single--all woman-worshippers shouod be single. They never find the woman who answers all the requirements.

But you have to realize, there is no such thing as this tidy little box you think you have to fold up and fit into; it simply does not exist. That's what I'm learning, learning as we speak.

You see,' Gwyn said slowly...'With an Indian boy maybe you can, you know, explore all that stuff. Go kamasutronic, so to speak.' I nodded, but I was feeling battle fatigue and was now thinking the tip of another thought: Or maybe an Indian boy would get that most of us don't know that stuff. That it was a lot of hype. It was the bindi blondes who were all over this scene, not the holelessly nosed Indian girls.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

So many Christians today see a system in which they cannot measure up and so they feel unworthy. The church seems to have failed them.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

In our Type A culture, people frequently equate verbosity with control and success.

Geeks, nerds, and eccentrics have always been in the world; what has changed is the world itself and our expectations of others within it.