Jill Scott Quotes

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

I think every time you go through a difficult relationship, you realize more and more about what you will and you won't have in your next relationship - what you deserve and what you don't deserve.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.

I think I was probably, at one point, a very needy friend, and as you grow up and you have your own life and get married or not and have kids or not, and life goes, and it grows, and you grow with it, and - I think I'm a better friend now.

Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'

I'll never get married again.

It might be that you never want to get married, or it might be that you really, really do. Either is fine. What's not fine is not to be honest about what you want.

I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder.

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married.

Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships.

I think it's so important, as young women, to have relationships, especially when you're in your early 20s. But it's always so important to focus on yourself.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.