Divorce Quotes - Page 30

• An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

  Rita Rudner

  Condom

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• every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Issues

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.

  Wendy Williams

  Gay, Years, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.

  Suze Orman

  Deserve The Best, Knows, Deserve

  "Suze Orman Says Oprah Taught Her An 'Encyclopedia Version Of Life'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 24, 2011.

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• You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

  Brandi Carlile

  Life Lesson, First Love, Loss

  "Bear Creek : A Conversation With Brandi Carlile, Plus Rocket Juice & The Moon by Galen Hawthorne". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2012.

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Home, Thinking

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• Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.

  Stacy Schiff

  Husband, Rights, Egypt

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• Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Would Be, Possibility, Marrying

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Dark, Clouds

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

  Numbers, Mind, Petty

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• Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Never Stop Loving

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Children, Years, Parent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  Noah Baumbach

  Teenager, Agreement, Profound

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Thinking, White

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• Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

  Robert Benchley

  Marriage, Sex, Opposites

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Motherhood, Achievement

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
  that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Husband, Sheep

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, House

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Years, Leaving

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

  Mary Pipher

  Children, Moving, Parent

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• Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Black And White, Thinking

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.120, Penguin

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• All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, War, Rain

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• If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.

  Bindu

  Drama, People, Add

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• So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, School, Kids

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• You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

  Dana Carvey

  Fire, Two, Heaven

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