No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.

Dear people of the world: If any of you have exceeded my expectations, it’s because I expect nothing from nobody.

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

If you don't get disappointed when you raise your expectations; you don't get appointments from where your mind is not!

She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.