Widowhood Quotes
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.
I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.
I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.