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 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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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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Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
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Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.
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Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.
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You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.
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Everywhere I have sought peace and not it, except in a corner with a book.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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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.
