1,224 Quotes About Divorce

  • Author Lorrie Moore
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    Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them all weird unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages.

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  • Author Lorrie Moore
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    Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.

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  • Author Germaine Greer
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    The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

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  • Author Tanya Thistleton
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    Fozzy was slowly realising his mistake of not having taken his friends words of warning more serious all those years ago. 'She's an expensive filly, with double standards,' he had said. Fozzy had not listened.

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  • Author Sara Rosett
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    She'd lived in the same house with this man and never once thought about his thighs in the last year.

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