Marriage Quote by Linda Evans

There is a particular 1980s voltage in Linda Evans framing ambition as a moral cleanup job. She isn’t selling hustle as glamour; she’s pitching it as restitution. The line reads like a self-audit: marriage ended, money on the table, pride on the line. By insisting she “wanted very much to be independent” and “not take alimony,” Evans isn’t only describing a career move, she’s managing the optics of female autonomy in a culture that still loved to call successful women “kept” even when they were working.

The repeated “very much” does quiet work here. It signals urgency, yes, but also self-persuasion - the way you talk when you need your own resolve to sound airtight. “I was looking very much for a career” lands less like a dream and more like a lifeline: career as structure, identity, and proof. Notably, she doesn’t say she wanted artistic fulfillment. She wanted “to be on my own,” a phrase that carries both emotional independence and literal solvency.

Then comes the clincher: “do the right thing.” That’s the subtextual negotiation with a judgmental public. Alimony is legal; she’s treating it as ethically questionable, because the era’s scripts often demanded women justify wanting money and justify refusing it. Evans positions work not as rebellion but as righteousness - a way to exit a relationship without looking like she profited from it. The intent is clear: reclaim agency while staying legible as respectable. In a celebrity ecosystem that punishes women for either dependence or desire, she chooses the one narrative that can pass as unimpeachable: self-reliance as virtue.