Quotes About Expectations

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things should be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

I didn't want it to be this way. Yes, you did, she said, because it is. I just want to be with someone normal, he said. I just want to have a normal life. Excuse me, she said. You're a little crazy, he said. You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.

If a man doesn't ask you to marry him -- or at least live with him -- after two years, he never will. It means he's only interested in having a good time.

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

Should, I suddenly recal myself saying to Samantha and Miranda, is the worst word in the English language. People always thing thing 'should' be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?

I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.

He still went out nearly every night. I thought, is this what he's going to do when we have the baby? Have I made another terrible mistake with a man? You don't really know a man until you have a child with him. Then you see so much. Is he kind? Is he tolerant? Is he loving? Or is he immature and egotistical and selfish? When you have a child, it can go two ways with your husband: You love him even more, or you lose all respect for him. And if you lose respect, there's no way to get it back...

The minute you get engaged, you become public property.

If you walk into a woman's apartment and nothing's out of place, you know she's not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She's going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.

Cada vez que un hombre me dice que es un romántico, me dan ganas de escupirle. Únicamente significa que tiene una idea romántica de ti, pero en cuanto te muestras tal y como eres y dejas de encajar en su fantasía, se desinfla. Los hombres románticos son un peligro. Cuanto más lejos, mejor.

Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how its so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that it'? This is what everyone's been raving about?

So much of being a woman is telling lies, isn't it?" Victory asked. "It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. Women think that survival depends on conformity. But for some women, conformity is death. It's a death to the soul. The soul," she said, "is a precious thing. When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

You always think life is going to get easier when you get older, but it doesn't.

Crap." We were supposed to get boyfriends last year and we didn't.

The monute you get engaged, you become public property.

the bridge from wanting a relationship, with all that entails, to having to settle for its lesser cousin: companionship

I finally figured out that it's not possible to have a real partner in life because relationships are inherently sexist," she said. "You have to be the mommy and the caretaker and when they want to have sex, you have to want to have sex and at a certain point a part of me would say, 'Why? Why am I

Everyone assumed that if you were beautiful, things just fell in your lap?

Because marriage is supposed to make you happy, not make you feel like a rat trapped in a very glamorous cage with twenty-thousand dollar silk draperies.

If a woman gets one good man in her life, she's lucky. She should be happy. Asking for two good men is tempting fate.

He wasn't Tolstoy but just plain old James Gooch. Commercial writer. Destined to be of the moment and not to stand the test of time. And the worst thing about it was that he'd never be able to pretend to be Tolstoy again.