Marriage Instability Quotes

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'

Thro’ want of Ministers to marry and thro’ the licentiousness of the People, many hundreds live in Concubinage – swopping their Wives as Cattel, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians.

If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.

I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.

I've been married three times and divorced three times.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.