Quotes About Expectations

Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what?

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

A friend of mine always says, 'Women love me for the man I'm not.'

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

Everybody gets bored or rather emotionally flat sometimes, but most players are not so honest as Tomic. They have sponsors that need to be happy, and they want to keep the tour happy.