You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.
I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.
Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.
Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
Rehab is like a divorce.
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.
Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.
