Quotes About Expectations

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits