A meme circulating on Facebook attributes a quote on divorce to US writer Jennifer Weiner.
“Divorce isn't such a tragedy,” it reads. “A tragedy is staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”
The quote has been shared on Facebook in South Africa and elsewhere as far back as 2012. It was recently tagged as possibly false by the social network’s fact-checking system.
Are the words by Weiner?
The quote is from Weiner’s best-selling novel, Good in Bed, published in 2001.
In the novel, the character Selma says it in conversation with her family during a meal on Thanksgiving, the US national holiday. – Lloyd Hazvineyi
“Divorce isn't such a tragedy,” it reads. “A tragedy is staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”
The quote has been shared on Facebook in South Africa and elsewhere as far back as 2012. It was recently tagged as possibly false by the social network’s fact-checking system.
Are the words by Weiner?
Quote from novel
The quote is from Weiner’s best-selling novel, Good in Bed, published in 2001.
In the novel, the character Selma says it in conversation with her family during a meal on Thanksgiving, the US national holiday. – Lloyd Hazvineyi
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