When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that women desire a partner who is stable and engaged in their own life, not just committed romantically.
Mindy Kaling highlights the misconception that women's desire for commitment solely means a romantic relationship. Instead, she argues that what women are truly seeking is a partner who is grounded and fully engaged in their own life, implying that a healthy relationship begins with both individuals being secure and fulfilled on their own before coming together.
In practice
In a discussion about healthy relationships, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of personal stability.
I get so worried about girls with body image stuff And I feel like I have been able to have a fun career and be an on-camera talent and be someone who has boyfriends and love interests and wears nice clothes and those kinds of things without having to be an emaciated stick. And it is possible to do it. In life, you don't have to be that way and you can have a great life, a fun life, and a fulfilling love life.
What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.
Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
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