Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family?

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

I was married for nine years before my husband and I separated and eventually divorced. Just as I'd watched my parents arguing and fighting, my son watched his parents arguing and fighting. It was like history repeating itself, and I felt terrible about him having to witness that.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.