Delia Ephron Quotes

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

I'm just divorced and wish to enjoy my single status.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

I'm spreading my wings at last.

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

The happiest time in any man’s life is just after his first divorce.

I know that I'm glad to be divorced and on my own.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.