Also Quote by Jill Lepore Download Open image “Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.” — Jill Lepore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Also American Among People World
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not… — Morton Hunt Copy Share Image
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Divorce rate in America reached 70%…I don't think it's any use to even get married now-a-days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why… — Banks Copy Share Image
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working… — Tom Lister, Jr Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
