Tippi Hedren Quotes

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.

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

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

I never believed in the institution of marriage, because ever since I was young, I had only seen marriages fall apart, or remain stuck in a rut.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.