quotations about divorce
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
JOHN IRVING
A Widow for One Year
The snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split
Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along with you.
MARK GUNGOR
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
The real wonder is that anyone stays together, as impossible to live with and as broken as we all are.
KYRAN PITTMAN
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
The easiest way to get a divorce is to be married.
AMERICAN PROVERB
My mother always said, "Don't marry for money, divorce for money."
WENDY LIEBMAN
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
ROBERT WOODRUFF ANDERSON
Solitaire: Double Solitaire
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
REBECCA WEST
attributed, Rebecca West: A Life
A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you.
JIMMY FALLON
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jan. 4, 2012
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
DENIS DIDEROT
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws
Divorce is like cutting off a gangrened arm to save the rest of the body.
DAVID KNOX & CAROLINE SCHACHT
Choices in Relationships
The best advice I have for other parents going through a divorce is that the kids need to know that both of their parents are good people. It's easy to set the example of kindness and love and respect when the things are good. So if you can do that when things are hard, and wholeheartedly support their relationship with the other parent--you're showing them a certain kind of resiliency.
BRADLY WHITFORD
Good Housekeeping, Jul. 2010
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
BETTY FRIEDAN
speech, Jan. 20, 1974
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
PAT ROBERTSON
The 700 Club
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
ELSIE CLEW PARSONS
Fear and Conventionality
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.
CRAIG FERGUSON
American on Purpose
Divorce is a failed challenge, which leads to a broken life. It is a socially transmittable disease that can transfer from one generation to another, and it is spreading fast.
SIA F. DEAN
Divorce Is Not an Answer
I pay my alimony on the button. I'm afraid that if I don't, my ex-wife will repossess me!
MILTON BERLE
Milton Berle's Private Joke File
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho