I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

The fact is I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

I know one husband and wife who whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

Instead I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce with child custody with so many other avenues and it has not helped.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened I was so broken up. After that I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations and then you have to adjust those expectations and it can be a very unnerving confusing time.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces but then as my mother always says 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces but then as my mother always says you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair then the marriage then children and finally the fourth stage without which you cannot know a woman the divorce.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.

Divorce these days is a religious vow as if the proper offspring of marriage.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.