Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.32, A&C Black

• Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Men, Years

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

• You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Disappointment, Expectations, Plant

  Interview with Cathi Hanauer, www.elle.com. March 23, 2009.

• I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Wedding, White

• I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Expectations, Fruit, Bitter

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.29, A&C Black

• Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Expectations, Giving

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stars, Moon, Expectations

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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