Divorce Quotes - Page 34

• When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

  Warren Farrell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Careers

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Parent, Birth Control

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• [2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.

  Christina Aguilera

  Years, Skins, Microscopes

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• The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Past, Ideas

  "Beach nut". Interview with Sue Wheat, www.salon.com. February 11, 2000.

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• People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.

  Benjamin Walker

  Fighting, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Home, Littles, Nine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Together, Vices, Bills

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 40, 1949 - 1957.

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• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

  Peter Kreeft

  Sex, Responsibility, Fate

  Peter Kreeft (2002). “Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

  Daniel De Leon

  Mean, Cutting, Gambling

  "Trimming the Poodle". "The Daily People" Newspaper, November 2, 1908.

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• Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

  Jack LaLanne

  Want, Window, Percent

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• This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.

  Pia Zadora

  Girl, Eye, Doors

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• in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Style, Suggestions

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• Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

  William Shatner

  Pain, Party, People

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Oil, Disagreeable

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2008). “When A Man Marries (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Strong, Risk

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• Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

  Merle Shain

  Views, Long, People

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.

  Merle Shain

  Dream, Falling In Love, Taken

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• In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Cities, Bulls, Bears

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Art, Fever, Literature

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Spiritual, Daily Activities, Activity

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  War, Fighting, Hated

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• We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

  Robyn Carr

  Together, Found, Civilized

  robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”

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• On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.

  Rosanne Cash

  Running, Years, Feet

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• There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

  Anne Roiphe

  Running, Cat, Tin Cans

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• If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Feels, Exception, Ifs

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