“We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.” ChurchSawsAbuseDivorceHandleOur SocietyGapsOutlets Author:Mo Abudu
“I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.” PeopleThinkingShouldChildrenDivorceJailContentious Author:Sean Hannity
“I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.” PeopleBelieveMarriedDivorce Author:Regina King
“My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Once we got to the space where we understood that we have the most important thing in the world in common; no one else shared that commonality. Our son is priceless, and in order to give him the best, we have to be better to each other. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.” WorldWantGivingStillsImportantBeautifulOrderSpaceCommonJourneySonHusbandUnderstoodImportant ThingsDivorceMy HusbandBitternessDivorcedPricelessBeautiful PlacesCommonality Author:Regina King
“In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'” WantSaidKidsMotherHateWifeDivorceHeyHate YouExesCheatedStood UpMessed UpEx WifeI Cheated Author:Kevin Hart
“Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.” IfsLooksLaughingHappenedNegativeDivorceMake You Laugh Author:Kevin Hart
“My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.” KidsTalkingSawsWifeFansDivorceMy WifeReactionsEngagedHaving Kids Author:Kevin Hart
“The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.” ChildrenProblemWorstConflictDivorceStemParentalAfter Divorce Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.” RealBuiltConnectionsHotBlowDivorceVulnerabilityCheatWireBikinisReal Connection Author:Brené Brown
“The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. 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.” IfsKindArtAbleSexRealizingAbilityRolesPlansAchieveMovementIdentityThousandPercentCommitmentBlameDivorceMotherhoodProfessionFemininePermitForbiddenLifelongObsoleteMystiqueFeminine Mystique Author:Betty Friedan
“I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.” WantReturnFaultsDivorceSpouse Author:George Pell
“Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.” ShouldChildrenWinningSocialCausesPaySpecialCoupleTaxesShould HaveDivorceHavoc Author:George Pell
“Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldCharacterHappensHouseNamesPoorNiceParticularModelsHollywoodDivorceThings HappenReally NiceBackdropNice House Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So, yes, divorce is talked about a lot, but it's so much more fun to be able to spin it with dark humour, rather than talk about real people's divorces.” PeopleIfsWorldRealAbleFunDarkHumourDrinkHollywoodDivorceAround The World Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.” IfsFeelsStillsFactsParentLove YouDivorceStill Love You Author:Jack Black
“Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships.” UnderstandingChangedDivorceWho I AmGood And Bad Author:Kevin Hart
“That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.” WritingCharacterStoriesSufferingSilenceElementsTraditionDrinkingDivorceAestheticShedRealistTobiasManlinessCarver Author:Jess Row
“The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.” StoriesProblemOrderPovertyWorryDiseaseEatingPoliceFeministDivorceTraumaPregnancyShelterAssaultSuperheroGloss Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.” PersonsMadeDifficultStrongerDivorceBetter PersonDifficult Experiences Author:Sebastian Roche
“Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.” PeopleMenWantI CanSpaceLove YouBiggerDivorcePlatformsLove You MoreMy Space Author:Rachel Holmes
“Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.” MenNeedsJobsNamesSituationPovertyFocusSecurityActivityRateFinancialDivorceIllegalSoarLiteracyRiotAbusiveFinancial LiteracyRuptureFinancial SecurityIllegal ActivitiesDivorce Rates Author:John Hope Bryant
“The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.” WritingStillsAgeFightingEasyParentMinutesFishesDivorceMemoirHipsPostsGutsBootsAlaskaFourteen Author:Leigh Newman
“Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective on what I was doing. In order to think about things as a writer you have to objectify your experience. I couldn't have been enacting that experience if I was objectifying it.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensOrderFeetPerspectiveDivorceObjectivesAssObjectifying Author:Melissa Febos
“Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.” YearsLongHomeDifficultTermChallengesFiveTwentiesDivorceLong TermFive YearsDifficult TimesTwenty FiveLong Term RelationshipGoing Through DivorceFamily HomeYears Of Marriage Author:Tim Matheson
“Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected me. We moved around and I was with my mom and my sister. I have learned, by the way, there were amazing gifts that came out of that. For one, I'm living my childhood dream. I feel very fortunate.” WayFeelsFeelingsDreamParentChildhoodEmotionalMomSixMovedMy MomDivorceInvisibleFortunateAffectedMy SisterI Have LearnedUnheardChildhood DreamsParents Divorce Author:Daphne Zuniga
“Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.” ParentMonthsDivorceFlashbackGetting A Divorce Author:Samantha Bee
“Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.” PeopleThinkingSchoolWinningDivorceFavourDrainsFees Author:Anthea Turner
“I have worked and earned all my life and have found that divorce is an expensive process. Whichever way you look at it, you are going to halve your wealth. If you can avoid it, do. It is an awful process.” IfsWayLooksFoundProcessWealthDivorceAwfulExpensive Author:Anthea Turner
“I think the animation helps divorce the violence from reality. The sex certainly doesn't look all that realistic. I think the fact that it's animated, we get some leeway because of that.” ThinkingLooksFactsHelpingRealitySexViolenceDivorceRealisticAnimationAnimated Author:Adam Reed
“Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.” PeopleChildrenBodyParentTroubleHavensAddictionFinancialBlowDivorceDisasterFortyBankruptcyThis Society Author:Marianne Williamson
“The base has chosen or is choosing a candidate that the establishment says is absolutely unacceptable. And what that means is this marriage of an elite, big business-backed establishment and a blue-collar, downwardly mobile base has really come to a divorce.” MeanBigsBlueDivorceChosenCandidatesEstablishmentElitesMobileCollarsBig BusinessBlue Collar Author:Mara Liasson
“But for a man, it's different. Like, separation can take years - it can take years to make divorce final. What am I supposed to do during those years? I think that's, you know it's not the *craziest* thing, but it's where a lot of rumors come from. It's frustrating.” ThinkingKnowsMenYearsDifferentFinalsDivorceSeparationFrustratingRumorCraziest Author:Khloe Kardashian
“You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.” KnowsMenYearsCareGuyThreeWaitingMiddleHavensKingsDivorceThree YearsWho CaresThis Guy Author:Khloe Kardashian
“"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.” TwoKidsMotherCarDadDivorceTides Author:Terry Gross
“I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.” WantWritingI CanDifferentDivorcePursue Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.” KnowsWayI CanReasonTurnsFeltHappeningsDown AndDivorceAfter DivorceHappening For A Reason Author:Gwen Stefani
“I just understand... I mean this may sound kind of bigheaded, bullheaded, or cumbersome, but when people say they've had a really deep experience with the record, like it caused a divorce or it like...I've gotten all these stories.” PeopleKindMayMeanStoriesSoundRecordsDivorceReally Deep Author:Justin Vernon
“I had been through, of course, the divorce and I had been hit with some taxes that really showed me to be careful who's working with you and your money, and you have to be the one that is responsible for your money - you can't trust anyone and I did and I ran into a problem.” ProblemCoursesTaxesResponsibleCarefulDivorceRanBe CarefulCan't Trust Anyone Author:Nas
“It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."” PeopleWellsShowsRight NowToughExcitedDivorceGoing Through Divorce Author:Larry Wilmore
“Jennifer Lopez has been very much in the news because of her divorce from Marc Anthony, also a top singer, a top player in Latin music, her joining the cast of judges on "American Idol." But the music has not been at the forefront.” Has BeensPlayerJudgingNewsCastsDivorceSingersLatinIdolsJoiningJenniferAmerican IdolLatin Music Author:Jennifer Lopez
“You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.” ThinkingMayStillsCharacterIndividualDetermineIllnessDivorceUnhappinessThread Author:James Hillman
“Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].” KindTwoShowsSituationComedyLuckyDivorceAll KindsComedy Shows Author:Fred Armisen
“What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.” PeopleWorldWantWritingAbleSongMarriedDivorceAround The WorldRelateReally Cool Author:Colbie Caillat
“Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.” WantTwoLove IsFiveModernPercentRateRoundsDivorceFiftyEnterpriseSixtyDivorce RatesModern Love Author:Esther Perel
“I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive.” PeopleYearsBelieveTogetherFeltMarriedDivorceI RealizedTherapyDestructiveStayingStaying Together Author:Regina King
“Let's be honest, half the marriages end in divorce. For me, it's never made much sense. I have a girlfriend and I'm not interested in anyone else, but I still wouldn't want to bring the federal and state government into my life.” WantMadeStillsEndsStatesGovernmentHalfHonestDivorceBeing HonestGirlfriendNot InterestedState Government Author:Bill Maher
“Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.” WantNeedsFirstsMatterStatesUnitedCompanyCitizensOne DayMembersAgreeCleanDivorceKingdomsCertaintyPartnershipUnited Kingdom Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for suffering - most people want to drug it, escape it, divorce it; do anything but live with it.” PeopleWantTodaySufferingCultureWishComfortDrugDivorceInstantGratificationDictionaryEraseInstant GratificationNo Patience Author:Joni Eareckson Tada