April 16, 2019
Inspirational Divorce Quotes
Here are several of my favorite quotes about divorce from successful women. I hope you find at least one of these inspirational.
“Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.”
— United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
—Erica Jong, novelist, satirist, poet
“I wanted to turn my divorce into a positive. What if I didn’t blame the other person for anything, and held myself 100 percent accountable? What if I checked my own s— at the door and put my children first? And reminded myself about the things about my ex-husband that I love, and fostered the friendship?”
— Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
“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, writer, television producer, journalist
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
— Deborah Reber, parenting activist, young adult fiction and non-fiction writer