Bel Kaufman Quotes
In August they had a bad fright. Her lawyer had suggested that—in view of the circumstances—they drop the divorce. This filled them both with profound dread; at the thought of staying married, of sinking back into the deadly boredom of their pre-divorce days, they felt nothing but horror. They realized more than ever that marriage for them was unthinkable.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
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It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.
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Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.
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I am strong. I lived through a divorce, separation from my family. I never let it break me down. I’m not an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. I’ve floated through the disaster of my past clean. I arrived here undamaged.
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It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.
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Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.
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Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
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When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option.
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When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
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[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy
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Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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In August they had a bad fright. Her lawyer had suggested that—in view of the circumstances—they drop the divorce. This filled them both with profound dread; at the thought of staying married, of sinking back into the deadly boredom of their pre-divorce days, they felt nothing but horror. They realized more than ever that marriage for them was unthinkable.
