Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" No matter how you handle alcohol at your wedding, you will most likely be upsetting someone. "
Emily V. Gordon
Wedding
Alcohol
Someone
Related Quotes:
" Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down. "
Emily V. Gordon
Past
Dance
Problems
" You didn't have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters' humor, because at its heart, 'Party Down' was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we've all had to work just to get by in the meantime. "
Emily V. Gordon
Dreams
Work
Heart
" Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact. "
Emily V. Gordon
Compete
Women
Undermine
" Nothing makes a girl feel as unsexy as divorce. "
Emily V. Gordon
Feel
Divorce
Girl
" Hindsight is always 20/20, but I imagine a lot of married and divorced people have insights to share about how they felt during their engagement. "
Emily V. Gordon
Imagine
People
Always
" In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other. "
Emily V. Gordon
Perfect
Warning
Ignore
" I'm not an actress. I'm a writer. "
Emily V. Gordon
Actress
Writer
" Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters. "
Emily V. Gordon
Make
Matters
Us
" Sometimes we put so much effort into things we're doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don't stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort. "
Emily V. Gordon
Planning
Effort
Dating
" I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized. "
Emily V. Gordon
Way
Time
Think
" Men - not all men but a good majority of the ones I have known and worked with - tend to think of difficult situations in their lives as problems that need to be solved. "
Emily V. Gordon
Men
Problems
Think
" If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous. "
Emily V. Gordon
Marriage
Trust
You
" Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit. "
Emily V. Gordon
You
Yourself
Expect
" 'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become. "
Emily V. Gordon
Become
Woman
Grief
" When someone insists that you watch a show that's already been on for a few seasons, they're basically saying, 'Hey, you're not doing anything for the next five weeks, are you? Because have I got a plan for you every single night! It's 'Weeds!'' "
Emily V. Gordon
Saying
Plan
Night
" Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges. "
Emily V. Gordon
Full
Feel
World
" Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework. "
Emily V. Gordon
Change
You
Marriage
" I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident. "
Emily V. Gordon
Medicine
Time
Thought
" Being completely independent doesn't make you a strong woman - it's being strong enough to trust yourself in other people's hands that takes guts. "
Emily V. Gordon
Yourself
Trust
Strong
" After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship. "
Emily V. Gordon
Romantic
Time
Work
" I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done. "
Emily V. Gordon
Work
Get
Go
" As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again. "
Emily V. Gordon
Silent
Conversation
Marriage
" Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently to keep this from happening. They make every problem in their relationship into something they could have prevented. "
Emily V. Gordon
Time
Long
Relationship
" I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies. "
Emily V. Gordon
Child
Best
She
" Marriage is not a magical potion that serves to amplify adoration, reduce deep-seated feelings of resentment, erase fears of commitment, or answer questions about whether or not this is the right move. Marriage is a ceremony that cements your current bond to another human being, and while that's a huge thing, that's all it does. "
Emily V. Gordon
Bond
Marriage
Questions
" Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it. "
Emily V. Gordon
Own
You
Without
" Sometimes, I hate-watch television. "
Emily V. Gordon
Sometimes
Television
" Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again. "
Emily V. Gordon
Long Time
Long
Divorce
" Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally. "
Emily V. Gordon
Man
Relationship
Conflict
" I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina, weird and pudgy, without too many other kids to play with. I spent a lot of time watching TV. It was my reassurance that the outside world was bigger and more colorful than the one I lived in. "
Emily V. Gordon
World
Weird
Time