I didnt run away from my feelings. I let myself cry. I let myself grieve." Jenna Dewan, actress and dancer, in an interview with Cosmopolitan Getty Images
I feel like Ive joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large. Theo Pauline Nestor, author of How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir Getty Images
For each of us, there comes a time to let go. You will know when that time has come. When you have done all that you can do, it is time to detach. Deal with your feelings. Face your fears about losing control. Gain control of yourself and your responsibilities. Free others to be who they are. In so doing, you will set yourself free." Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself Getty Images
Even after the most tragic death, the meanest divorce and the worst breakup, it is possible to heal over time. Itayi Garande, author of Shattered Heart: Overcoming Death, Loss, Breakup and Separation Getty Images
"Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through. And Im growing through it." Sharon Stone, in an interview with NBC Getty Images
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. Stephanie Klein, author of Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir Getty Images
"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you." Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale Getty Images
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Peter Dazeley - Getty Images
A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live. Suzanne Finnamore, author of Split: A Memoir of Divorce Getty Images
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house." Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress Getty Images
Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride. Diane Hammond, author of Hannah's Dream Getty Images
"Divorce is in the machine now, like love and birth and death. Its possibility informs us, even when it goes untouched. And if we fail at marriage, we are lucky we dont have to fail with the force of our whole life." Ann Patchett, author of This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage Getty Images
"You have to have two people to dance a marriage. My hearts a little on the tender side right now, and its always easier to focus on the ways that you feel hurt, but I know that, with time and some perspective, Ill have a clearer sense of where I let the system down, because theres no way I get off in this. Jennifer Garner, actress, in an interview with Vanity Fair Jamie Grill - Getty Images
"Id marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee hed be dead in a year." Bette Davis, actress Jeffrey Hamilton - Getty Images
"Time passed. Anger saved me from depression. After a while, it had all been said. No more stray phone messages, no more brooding for days on end. No more ashes on my tongue." Suzanne Finnamore, author of Divorce, And My Sexy New Life for The Guardian Getty Images
"Half of all marriages end in divorceand then there are the really unhappy ones." Joan Rivers, comedian and author of Bouncing Back: I've Survived Everything...and I Mean Everything...and You Can Too! Getty Images
Only consistent, unconditional love is good enough. Susan J. Elliott, author of Getting Past Your Breakup: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You Maskot - Getty Images
It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go. Greg Behrendt, author of It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy Peter Dazeley - Getty Images
"I never really came alive for myself; I was only feeding his aliveness." Scarlett Johansen, actress, as Nicole in Marriage Story Peter Dazeley - Getty Images
Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Getty Images
"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left." Jean Kerr, author Getty Images
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isnt a sign that they 'dont understand one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to. Helen Rowland, journalist Getty Images
Divorce isnt such a tragedy. A tragedys staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce." Jennifer Weiner, author of Fly Away Home Peter Dazeley - Getty Images
Every way that youve given away your power, denied your own deeper knowing, put someone elses feelings and needs before your own, stayed embedded in a victimized story, or settled for less in lifeall of it is now up for review. You have nowhere to hide. Life has broken you open and it is violently, mercilessly forcing you to evolve, to develop, and to grow. Katherine Woodward Thomas, author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After Getty Images
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I dont have time for hate or negativity in my life. Theres no room for it." Reese Witherspoon, in an interview with Parade Getty Images
If youve made it clear what your real bottom lines are and your partners violated them anyway, then by definition you will not be happy if you stay and you will only be happy if you leave. Quick take: The bottom line is the end of the line." Mira Kirshenbaum, author of Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship Peter Dazeley - Getty Images
When you come out on the other side of this, the amount of power you walk away with is going to blow your fucking mind. Jen Waite, author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal Getty Images
"I stopped willing myself to feel strong and started to let in the truth that feeling vulnerable is a condition of living. I would not be able to win my divorce, and I would not be able to win life, either. It suddenly became clear to me that no one had been keeping score except me." Stacy Morrison, author of Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist's Journey Through the Hell of Divorce Getty Images
"I had built my life on trying to be all things to all people, and I just couldn't do it anymore." Gwyneth Paltrow, founder of GOOP, in an interview with People Getty Images
"It takes two to destroy a marriage." Margaret Trudeau, author of Changing My Mind Getty Images