Divorce Quotes
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I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.
Kitty Kelley
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There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
Michael Douglas
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After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.
Warren Farrell
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If we penalize mothers for denial of 'visitation time' we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for 'visitation time.' The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with - divorce.
Warren Farrell
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I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'
Kirsten Dunst
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I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
Christina Aguilera
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball
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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?
Dawn French
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
Lindsey Vonn
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Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time.
Alyssa Sutherland
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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
Jane Fonda
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Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.
Elizabeth Hurley
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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
Ha Jin
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If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.
Joseph Heller
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Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!
David Gray
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I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
Ben Miller
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If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
Al Goldstein
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Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
Yolanda Hadid
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
John Milius
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Hollywood overstates both the romance of marriage and the prevalence of divorce. Celebrities have divorce rates that are atypical and higher than most couples. I suspect that in celebrity marriages, there are huge egos on both sides and they do seem to encourage unrealistic expectations about falling in love. The problem with our romantic culture is that you can love someone you don't respect and the marriage can run out of gas with that formula. Respect is essential - not just respecting your partner but being sure your partner equally respects you.
Stephanie Coontz
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Divorce is the cheapest thing in Pakistan. About 30 cents. Cheaper than fish and chips. I've had clients married to very rich men for 40 years, then turned out on the road with nothing.
Asma Jahangir
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Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
Lee Radziwill
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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.
Chelsea Handler