Mona Eltahawy Quotes

I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.

I married her after knowing her eight days, and I was happy. That was my baby. At the same time, with us being so spontaneous, we did it backwards. Maybe she won't admit it, but I will. We should have got to know each other and then got married. The relationship kind of dissolved, but we're still going to be friends. I love her.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

I think there is a real negative attitude to splitting up with someone in our society, but it is good to stay friends.

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

I was with my ex-husband for eight or nine years, and we became good friends. I met him at university, and our relationship ended. We are still good friends.

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.