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Quotes About Divorce

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
~ Lauren Bacall
The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.
~ Fannie Hurst
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
~ Evan Esar
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
~ Helen Fisher
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
~ Kate Millett
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
~ Evan Esar
Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.
~ Jay Leno
When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
~ Evan Esar
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
~ James Brolin
Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
~ Ron Wyden
When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
~ Susan Faludi
When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.
~ Warren Farrell
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
~ Warren Farrell
He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
~ Carrie Etter, The Tethers
Dear fear, I'm divorcing you. Dear courage, I'm courting you. Dear hope, I'm pursuing you. Dear love, I'm marrying you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.
~ DanTDM
How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
~ Jessica Seinfeld
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
~ Jennifer Garner
People told me it was a mistake to marry so young but you can't go into a marriage thinking that because the divorce statistics are so high your marriage won't last. You have to work at it day by day. Though certainly marriage isn't a final, heavy commitment, like signing your life away. It's the type of thing you can always get out of.
~ Judy Norton