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I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

Feminists say no-fault divorce was a large hurdle on the path to female liberation. They apparently don't consult the deepest hopes or greatest fears of young women.

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.