the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house,… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“You will say things with a merry tongue; you are not one for graceless words and no one will take offence. I… — Noella Menon Copy Share Image
“It's like Romeo & Juliet,' I say. 'You can't separate them. Otherwise, there would be no Shakespeare.' Silence. I decide to be… — Mariane Pearl Copy Share Image
“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.” — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
“In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving intelligently—“shrewdly” and “reasonably”—she… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Like the long gone captains of the Confederacy, he stood watch at the edge of Dauphin Island, his old life just out… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“What changes when a woman marries? What does a woman lose and what does she gain? For Abishag, marrying king David gave… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“End the affair briskly, and without allowing the slightest room for doubt,' Griselda continued. 'Tell the gentleman that while you are grateful… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath.… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
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