Celebrities get the headlines, of course. What makes them so special?
“Hollywood marriages are two constructed images colliding,” said bandleader Artie Shaw, reflecting on his ex-wives. He married eight times, in addition to 11 serious girlfriends. So much for expertise.
Let’s turn to ten others.
- “Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” ― Marilyn Monroe
- “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably, they are both disappointed.” ― Albert Einstein
- “A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.” ― Cher
- “I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed, too ― for being married so many times. ― Elizabeth Taylor
- “You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.” ― David Bowie
- “Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other … You can’t spend a lifetime breathing down each other’s necks.” ― Paul Newman
- “You never really know a man until you divorce him.” ― Zsa Zsa Gabor
- “When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now … once he opened the car door for me in the last four years ― we were on the freeway at the time.” ― Joan Rivers
- “For marriage to be a success, every woman should have their own bathroom. The end.” ― Catherine Zeta-Jones
- “Huh, celebrity marriages. They never last, do they?” ― Donkey, in Shrek
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