10 quotations in Love & Marriage, Divorce in English
"A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you."
Margaret Atwood
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
Jean Kerr
"Getting married in America is like doing business in Russia. Everything is up for grabs, everything is constantly renegotiated, and nobody has to keep their word. I think that makes for a lot of unhappy marriages, even though no-fault was supposed to take care of that."
John Crouch
"I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word."
Nora Johnson
"The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience."
Jo Coudert Advice from a Failure
"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman: the divorce."
"Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language."
Austin Elliot
"Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex’s new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate’s ex and any new mate that your new mate’s ex has acquired."
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