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Quotes About Divorce

America has been the 'mother' of the promotion and glorification of adultery (leading to divorce), in spite of the Seventh Commandment's prohibition (Exodus 20:14). What other nation can make such a dishonorable claim?
~ John Price
The literal translation of the word "sin" is missing the mark. Are we blind to how far we are from 'hitting the mark'? Since current polls and demographic studies show that Christians living in America are divorcing, abusing, over-indulging, bankrupting or adultering at rates that don't differ from non-Christians, we have to admit our blindness.
~ John Price
While a man is limited to four wives under a full marriage contract, there is no limit to how many temporary wives he may have, though, as ever, the unmarried women allowed to enter into sigeh partnerships are limited to one temporary husband at a time. The man can also divorce his temporary wife at any time during the contract, whereas the woman cannot.
~ John R. Bradley
I suppose you could say that Paul is a … hustler? His rich wife Corina paid him grandly when they divorced, wouldn't you say?" "That's called alimony," I laughed.
~ John Rechy
Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions. We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
~ Ellie Goulding
'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
~ Ellie Goulding
the right to divorce among them belongs to the women; the wife divorces when she wants,' one wrote. Adultery by both sexes was punished harshly. Around 1075 Adam of Bremen relates that in Denmark men were punished by death for adultery, while women were sold, and that there was also capital punishment for the rape of virgins.
~ Else Roesdahl
Certain women of a lymphatic temperament will pretend to have the spleen and will even feign death, if they can only gain thereby the benefit of a secret divorce.
~ balzac honore de xxi
1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opens there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.
~ Barbara Samuel
worship had been divorced from justice, and the fatherless and the widow had become the chief victims
~ Barry G. Webb
She let him go.
~ Barry Gifford
Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?
~ barthelme donald ii
My wife got all freaked out when we started doing the reality show because she said she saw all these reality shows, and everyone was getting divorced.
~ Rick Harrison
I was married for like seven, eight years. And then coming out of that I was like, 'Okay, now what? I guess I would like to date? That's a reasonable thing. I'm allowed to have that!'
~ Laura Jane Grace
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
~ Juliette Binoche
A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.
~ Gene Ween
Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women to show me the way. When my parents divorced when I was 11, my mom was a force to be reckoned with. She showed me how to be self-sufficient and independent.
~ Cassadee Pope
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
~ Reese Witherspoon
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
~ Jimmy Carl Black
I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.
~ John Mellencamp
A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.
~ Stephanie Coontz
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
~ Bianca Jagger