The Divorce Colony Quotes

“They had rising ideals and a new vision for marriage, and for each of them, divorce was a declaration of independence. That’s what Maggie Zborowski tried to tell a reporter in 1891, before her divorce from the Baron: “I made up my mind to leave my husband to save myself.”
― April White, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

“But that did not alarm Cornell University professor Walter Willcox, who had, over the previous twenty years, become a leading authority on American marriage and divorce. He was heartened by the story the numbers told. “We are slowly awakening to a new ideal of the family based not upon the subordination of the wife in all phases of family life,” Willcox told his students. “The increase of divorce in this country may be due rather to a rising of ideals than to a decay in family life.”
― April White, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier