Jennifer Aniston Quotes

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

Nobody wants to get divorced.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.

We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.

Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?