Karen Salmansohn

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

American Author

Naomi Watts

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

English Actress

Emily V. Gordon

Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword - it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.

American Writer

Yvette Mimieux

In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

American Actress

Karisma Kapoor

India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

Indian Actress

Rashami Desai

The rumours and link-ups with my co-stars are upsetting. Is it a crime to be a divorcee and a single woman? Does being a divorcee mean you can't have a life?

Elif Safak

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

Turkish Author

Tinsley Mortimer

If you have a girlfriend who is a fellow divorcee, you share a lot of common ground because you've been through the same things.

American Celebrity

Anna Magnani

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Italian Actress

J. K. Rowling

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

English Author

Being a divorcee may carry a social stigma in some cultures, affecting how people perceive them.

Social Stigma

Divorcee can refer to either a man or a woman, but sometimes people incorrectly use it only for women.

Gender Specificity

Don't confuse 'divorcee' with 'widow' or 'widower'; divorcees have ex-spouses who are still alive.

Not Widowed

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I am here to confuse you...

 where fathers were the heads of households, so I grew up seeing my mother as a divorcee in a patriarchal environment. In fact, I grew up observing two different kinds of womanhood. On the one hand was my mother,