Quotes About Expectations

Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that's like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah.

She'd heard it from him all her life; just once she wanted to hear him say that Mom should try harder. "I will," she said, completing their little fairy tale as she always did. And she would try. She always did, but she and her mother would never be close. There was just too much water under that bridge.

They both understood; every at-home mom in the world understood. Ultimately there were prices to be paid for the choices a woman made.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

The Age of Innocence.

Learn to be happy with real life. Throw away your silly romantic novels.

Not that this seemed like a good thing at the time, mind you. I mean, I knew I was supposed to see my future on a body that held a uterus. I didn't want to be gay. I knew how hard it would be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that it would mean giving up the American Dream—kids, a house in the suburbs, my own family. It tore me up inside." Dean had never thought about that, about what it really meant to be gay. To have to choose between who you were and who the world thought you should be.

It's just that I have seen firsthand that celebrity is not the utopia I'd imagined, and it has made me question my interpretations of the world around me.

You said I was supposed to shoot you if you even thiught about narriage before thirty. You want to amenr that?

It was the holiday season, the time of year that turned women into card-carrying split personalities.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

All my life I've been told to make no noise, don't want too much, be grateful for any scrap that came my way. And I've done that. I thought if I just did what women are supposed to do and played by the rules, it would Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ change. But the way we're treated…" "It's unfair," he said. "It's wrong," she said.

Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

Nessuno ha la vita che si aspettava, ma è il modo in cui ci si adatta alle difficoltà a determinare se si è felici o no.

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

Hope non puoi affrontare la vita rispettando tutte le regole e facendo tutto quello che ci si aspetta da te senza pensare a te stessa. È così che ci si sveglia a ottant'anni e ci si rende conto di essersi lasciati sfuggire tutte le occasioni della vita.»

The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming

Hope, you can't go through life living by all the rules and doing what people expect of you without thinking for yourself, you know? That's how you wake up at the age of eighty or whatever and realize life has passed you by.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

How many times have you carried the burden of thinking you have to live up to some ideal "fairy-tale" image of a good mother?

Ja, wir wollen wohl ein bißchen viel: kluge Gespräche und Logik und gutes Aussehen und ein bißchen Treue und dann dieser nie zu unterdrückende Wunsch, von der Frau wie ein Beefsteak gefressen zu werden, daß die Kinnbacken krachen... .

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.