Amy Poehler Quotes

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Nobody wants to get divorced.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

Divorce: fission after fusion.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.

Divorce has been very, very good to me.

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

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.

Taking such disputes of custody of children in a divorce before a secular court of law is something prohibited in Islam.

If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost. Whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible - get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That's not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you're breaking up.

'Divorce Court' is a great show.

I think there's a good-er divorce. I think that's absolutely possible. There's a better way to do it and everything in between, and then, of course, there's the disastrous way to do it.

When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.