45 Quotes on Divorce for Women

It's difficult going through a divorce and it can seem like no one really understands how you are  feeling. There may be days when you’re angry about the whole situation, overwhelmed by sadness, or just feeling scared and alone. To help you out, these quotes on divorce will give you something to smile about during this difficult time, with funny and famous quotes, as well as words of encouragement to help inspire you. 
by Tracy Achen

Funny Divorce Quotes


"Divorce: when the marriage is over, but the mental replay button is stuck on repeat."
- Unknown

quote by Jean Kerr comparing divorce to being hit by a Mack truck


"Marriage is an institution. Divorce is a way to stay out of the madhouse."
- Unknown

divorce quote by J.B. Handlesman


"Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."
- Robin Williams

funny divorce quote

"Marriage is like a Rubik's Cube. Divorce is when you finally give up and throw it against the wall."
- Anonymous

Famous Quotes on Divorce

"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass."
- Mary Kay Blakely

"For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life."
- Joyce Brothers

Ann Landers' quote about open marriage

"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table." 
- Jean Kerr

Zsa Zsa Gabor's quotes on divorce


"Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce."
- Jennifer Weiner 

Johnny Carson quote - The difference between a divorce and legal separation...

“When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable.” 
- Anna Quindlen 

Quotes of Encouragement


"There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, and the other is to be satisfied with what you have."
- Unknown 

"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
- Mike Todd 

"When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer."
- Gene Hill

  • Coach's Advice
    When I first read this quote, it really made me smile. It is such a great picture of what life sometimes gives to us. In our grand scheme of things, we set out in our very safe row boat for a quiet day of sun and fishing only to find ourselves falling into the river and learning to swim. Life is nothing like what we originally may have thought. And all of us at one point or another in our lives have found ourselves out of the boat and learning to swim. If you choose to become bitter and resent this change of station in life, you will eventually sink. If you choose to take on the challenge of being in a new place, trust that this is a natural part of the journey, and enjoy the experience, you will learn to swim. It's your choice - sink or swim.

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"
- Jonathan Winters

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"A positive attitude will not solve all the problems in the world, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
- Unknown 

"Getting divorced doesn't mean you failed at marriage, it means you as a team failed at that marriage."
- Anonymous 

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford

Inspirational Quotes about Starting Over 

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow." - Dan Rather

Helen Keller quote - when one door of happiness closes...


"Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places."
- Unknown

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."
- Abraham Maslow


Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe about never giving up


"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Theresa 

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" - Mary Manin Morrissey

"Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead, and instead, place them where they truly will do the most good - on your mirror!"
- Susan Jeffers 


"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
- J.K. Rowling

Quotes on Divorce from the Bible

"When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife." Deuteronomy 24:1-2 

"But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace." 1 Corinthians 7:10-15

Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, expect for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery." Matthew 19:8-9

More Quotes Just for Women

"A strong woman doesn’t seek revenge. She moves on and lets karma do the dirty work."
- Unknown 

"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships."
Gilda Radner 

"Never mistake a woman's silence for her ignorance, her calmness for her acceptance, and her kindness for her weakness."
Unknown  

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
- Eleanor Roosevelt 

"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one."
- Mae West 

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
- Washington Irving

"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease."
- Lisa Alther 

"No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry."
- Unknown 

"The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends." 
— Gwyneth Paltrow 

"Now she knew what divorce really was: Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street."
— Judy Blundell 


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