Divorce Quote by Edith Wharton

“She understood now that knowing when to walk away and when to hunker down and refuse to leave were equally difficult decisions to make…

— Holly Kennedy

“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“the only things he had ever given her that she hadn’t discarded in their divorce, both retained in the name of sentimentality.”

— David Mack

“she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she…

— Eleanor Brown

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen

“She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.”

— a.s. byatt

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Once all the needed things were in place, and a new home settled, a woman who earned her own money could give herself a…

— Sarah-Jane Stratford

“She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way.…

— Karen Essex

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham

“When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things…

— Virginia Woolf

“The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes,…

— Suzan Battah