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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

#delightfully #dive #expectations #find #go

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#best friend #friend #husband #inspiration #intellectual

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#always #call #i #i always #myself

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#assemble #content #depressed #end #i

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. ↗

— L. Wolfe Gilbert

#find #itself #life #nature #secrets

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#any #education #formal #i #i was raised

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#go #i #just #like #me

I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#come #every #fun #get #i

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#common #differ #everyone #genes #know