Divorce Quotes - Page 29

• I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

  Molly Ivins

  Giving Up, Real, Cancer

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• I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

  Dan Barker

  Years, Atheism, Fingers

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• I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Crazy, Kids, Loss

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• You have to be with the right person. Its so much more important to meet the right person, whether youre married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.

  Joanna Garcia

  Important, Married, Persons

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• In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

  Edith Wharton

  Able, Sentimental, Partnership

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

  Ann Landers

  House, Rooms, Bedroom

  Ann Landers (1982). “Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...”, Prentice Hall

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• If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sports, Husband, World

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• Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

  Helen Rowland

  Price Of Love, Matrimony

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• Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

  Jayne Mansfield

  People, Hollywood, Marriage Love

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• Divorce: fission after fusion.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fusion, Fission

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• There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

  Muriel Spark

  Ideas, Upset, Too Much

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

  Doris Lessing

  Horse, War, Race

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• The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

  Rebecca West

  Children, Men, Unhappy

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Technology, Vision, Blind

  Shirley Maclaine (2010). “Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation”, p.39, Bantam

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• Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Hollywood, World

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• I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

  Roseanne Barr

  Upset, Widows

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• unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

  Betty Rollin

  Motherhood, Disappointing

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• Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

  Freya Stark

  Everyday, Ordinary, Way

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Real divorce takes place without a decree.

  Margaret Deland

  Real, Decree

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• I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

  Regina King

  Children, Son, Should Have

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!

  Eva Mendes

  Numbers, America, Causes

  "Eva Mendes' First Interview About New Baby, Plus Her Secret Rule to Keeping Ryan Gosling Happy at Home". extratv.com. March 18, 2015.

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• An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

  Ursula Parrott

  Wife, Necks, Shoulders

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.

  Sally Helgesen

  Women, Warrior, Destiny

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• Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Husband, Rights, Land

  "A Minute With: Gabriel Byrne's TV Viking chieftain". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

  Ali MacGraw

  Girl, Stupid, Truth Is

  "'Love Story' Actress Ali McGraw: I Should Have Sought Alimony". www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2012.

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