Emily Atack Quotes

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.

Divorce is hard, and it takes a lot out of you.

Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

When you're going through a divorce it's hard.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'