Abandoned Quote by Richard Schickel

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are…

— Ayelet Waldman

[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the…

— Julius Evola

“Women like Bethenny - my friend from the town of vanishing men - have a kind of ambiguous independence right now. They are much…

— Hanna Rosin

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

— Caitlin Flanagan

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…

— Willa Cather

Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently…

— Emily V. Gordon

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

— Elsie Clews Parsons

“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“As someone who had faced the harsh reality of her parents' divorce and experienced the fallout from that situation,”

— Joe Allan