Divorced Women Quotes

#1. Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.

Shulamith Firestone

#2. Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

Ivana Trump

#4. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

Rita Rudner

#5. For those of you who skipped their women's studies classes, first-wave feminism got women the vote; second-wave got them employed and divorced; third-wave is busy making them porn stars. More or less.

Kathleen Parker

#6. So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Harold Brodkey

#7. The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

Bharati Mukherjee

#8. Divorced?'
'Separated.'
He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")

John Crowley

#9. I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

Alex Honnold

#10. I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.

Meryl Streep

#11. A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

Nawal El Saadawi

#12. Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

Warren Farrell

#13. I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

Robbie Robertson

#14. When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

Louis C.K.

#15. Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

Richard Schickel

#16. I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

Frank Lampard

#17. Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls

John Owen

#18. There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.

Marcus Luttrell

#19. 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

#20. I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee

#21. She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.

Honeya

#22. One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

Amy Dickinson

#23. American mythology would have it that divorced or widowed women in their middle years were desperate to remarry. That had not been Polly's experience. Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed.

Nevada Barr

#24. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#25. People with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

Liza Cody

#26. A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Bianca Jagger