“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I disabled my popup blocker earlier today... or as some people call it, got a divorce.”— Sovas, reddit.com
“You are so lucky to be best friends. Work hard at that. And respect that. Be patient. You don’t always have to be right. Even if you are, it doesn’t fucking matter anyway. Fight for it everyday. I wish I had.”— Rashida Jones, Celeste, amazon.com
“When he comes home with pregnant knuckles, dripping blood all over the floor, I feel like a volcano of a wife. I am waiting for the tectonic plates below me to pose perfectly. I am waiting for the last straw, the last black eye or missing tooth I see before I pack my suitcase and he shows me the fro…”— Lydia Havens, freezeraypoetry.com
“My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time.”— Georgina Chapman, variety.com
“I tried to re-marry my ex-wife. But she figured out I was only after my money.”— EuroStep0, reddit.com
“My marriage was a like a hurricane. At the beginning there was a lot of blowing, but in the end I lost my house.”— CrazyKZG, reddit.com
“Be a woman who knows when to leave houses, marriages, and relationships, because it doesn’t feels like home anymore.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“Rose, he left me 38 years later for a stewardess that he met on a business trip to Hawaii. It was her first flight. They said, 'On arrival, give the passengers a lei.' She got confused, he got lucky, and they now live on Maui.”— Susan Harris, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com
“They amputated your thighs off my hips. As far as I’m concerned they are all surgeons. All of them. They dismantled us each from the other. As far as I’m concerned they are all engineers. All of them. A pity. We were such a good and loving invention. An airplane made from a man and wife. Wings and e…”— Yehuda Amichai, amazon.com
“First divorce: wife's hidden sexuality, not my fault. Second divorce: said the wrong name at the altar, kind of my fault. Third divorce: they shouldn't let you get married when you're that drunk and have stuff drawn all over your face, Nevada's fault.”— David Schwimmer, Ross Geller, David Schwimmer, imdb.com
“How do you go from eight years of a happy marriage to wanting to blow someone's head off?”— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
“I want to save my life while I still care about it.”— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
“Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.co.uk
“I think I married for the wrong reasons... Instead of following my heart and doing something that made me really happy, I just did it for the idea of everything.”— Britney Spears, amazon.com
“You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you…”— Reese Witherspoon, elle.com
“[On divorce from Ryan Philippe] Very humiliating and very isolating...But, by the way, if it's not painful, maybe it wasn't the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions. When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonn…”— Reese Witherspoon, elle.com
“[Divorce was] the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle—there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life. You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.”— Ryan Phillippe, wmagazine.com
“With divorce, you are one person before, and you have to figure out how to be another person after. Forget about whether your marriage works. You're losing your family. And women often blame themselves... At least that you have control over. People who blame everybody else, they don't realize doing…”— Uma Thurman, redbookmag.com