Quotes About Widowhood

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she has slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.

This determination to manage—to cope—to do as much unassisted as possible—is the Widow's prerogative. You might argue that it's a sign of her wish to appear to be—which is not the same as being—self-sufficient; or you might argue that it is a symptom of her derangement. But then, in the early minutes/hours/days of Widowhood—what is not, if examined closely, a symptom of derangement?

women who were widowed or made homeless joined the nearest army, offering their services more to avoid starvation than to further their political beliefs.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.

husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a

who've been treated like garbage by their horrible husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a divorce.

people who had neglected my acquaintance during my widowhood. Widows were skeletons at the feast, dampening everyone else's pleasure,

I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

The best possible outcome of marriage was a wealthy, childless widowhood.

Death of a wife is the biggest Silent Treatment you'll ever receive, so be good to her.

Mrs. Brandon herself, in one of her moods of devastating truthfulness, had explained her own appearance as the result of a long and happy widowhood, and as, after a little sincere grief at the loss of a husband to whom she had become quite accustomed, she had had nothing of consequence to trouble her, it is probable that she was right.

Fenella's lips tightened at his quick dismissal of her usefulness and endurance. For five years, people had coddled her—if truth were told, people had always coddled her—and she'd had enough. It had been unpleasant, but refreshingly bracing when Mr. Townsend had shouted at her. Nobody ever shouted at her. Since her widowhood, they were inclined to murmur in her presence as if they were in church.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

I think it's wonderful when people who have lost someone find love again, but I'm not personally looking, and I haven't been on a date in 27 years. In fact, it's been so long, I've had a couple of lovely women ask me out because they figured that's the case.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

I haven't dated anyone in the ten years since we lost Steve just because I feel a connection still with Steve.

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.