Diane Garnick Quotes

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

If a husband and wife be divorced, she shall have her own property that she came with to her husband, and the half of the income if it be from her own property

As the relative pay of women has grown and the relative pay of less-educated, working class men has declined, the latter have been viewed as less and less marriageable…. With less to bring to the table, such men are regarded as less necessary—in part because women can now count on provisions from the welfare state as an additional independent source of income, however meager.

While women prefer to have a higher-earning power, men generally prefer to be the higher-earning partner in a relationship. This simple but profound difference … has powerful consequences for the so-called pay gap. If the pay gap were magically eliminated, … simple arithmetic suggests that half the women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate. The pay gap helps to promote and sustain marriages.

Nobody wants to get divorced.

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

The wages of sin is alimony.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Let's not forget, I got divorced.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

I never thought I would be divorced.

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

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

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

There is no 100 percent pre-nup.

Even after marriage it is possible for a woman to have a career.

A marriage in which a woman is daily made to feel her dependence upon a man, is attended with the gravest moral perils. The only just rule is for the husband to allow his wife a fair share of his income, for her to do with as she pleases.

The question of settling divorce should be in the hands of the wiser party, and that is men. Men are wise, which is why they do not have to go to court. Islamic law would consider the wise wife an exception, and you cannot generalize an exception.

In the 1950s, men were the bread winners and women worried about the price of bread.

I thought surely if women were consulted in the management of the state happier and better conditions must exist for hard-working sweated lives such as these... It was gradually unfolded to me that the unequal laws which made women appear interior to men were the main cause of these evils. I found that the man-made laws of marriage, parentage and divorce placed women in every way in a condition of slavery - and were as harmful to men by giving them power to be tyrants

… government policy should favor married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators, Working women … are detrimental to the family man's basic nature is inclined towards evil, and when the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse, or homosexuality, the government must restrain, punish, and deter