"I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children."

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Source : "Christie Brinkley: Not My American Sweetheart" by Jane Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2008.

Jane Green

#Husband Quotes #Children Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is â€œDonâ€™t be stupid.â€ Iâ€™m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.”
“Now? I'm just another female faking ***** to make a man not feel so inadequate.”
“Life is luck, make it.”
“There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.”
“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”
“Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.”
“In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?”
“A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.”

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