Quotes About Widowhood

one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive'.

I'm not trying to keep it a secret, that I was married, that I'm widowed. No one asked. And then someone did—that nurse. Gloria." "Well, I guess she had to be sure you weren't gay," she said, and grinned largely. He grinned back. She was impossible. And wonderful. "I'm

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.

Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding. This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts. And at the end of this road, there was nothing—nothing but Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton, nineteen years old, a widow with a little child.

Marriage was bad enough, but to be widowed-oh, then life was over forever!

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.

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

It has been said that the second year of widowhood is worse than the first—the idea being, I think, that the shock has worn off and now one has to simply live with the loss, and I had been finding that to be

This is because my husband had died a year earlier; also I am often despondent at the end of a book tour, and this had been made worse because I no longer had David to call from the road. That was the hardest part of the tour for me: not having David to speak to each day.

Musing thus, she set out upon on her widowhood, and became altogether as good a widow as she had been a wife.

It is so nice to go to church," said Lizzie. Since her widowhood had commenced, she had compromised matters with the world. One Sunday she would go to church, and the next she would have a headache and a French novel and stay in bed. But she was prepared for stricter conduct during at least the first months of her newly-married life.

She'd hatched into this new world of widowhood and wasn't sure where to turn now for her own personal source of light. Lost without bearings, scrambling madly toward some unseen goal. She no longer trusted her instincts. She didn't know how to be alone. She was afraid to be the solitary swimmer she'd once been. Brett had changed that in her. She needed the companionship of her friends more than ever.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

Young widows still bide their time.

When a man gets cheated on, I'm like, 'Meh, he'll find somebody else.' When a woman gets cheated on, that's a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect - you had a great love and the universe took her.

If one's husband had been married before and widowed—a fairly common condition—and a close relative of his first wife's died, the second wife was expected to engage in "complementary mourning"—a kind of proxy mourning on behalf of the deceased earlier partner.

I, like many young widows, have very well developed gallows humor.

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

az ön édesapja példás özvegységében az Å'si szüzesség oly állapotába tért vissza, ami erÅ'sen foglalkoztatja a tudományos közvéleményt, és még az érsekség is aktát nyitott róla a mihamarabbi boldoggá avatásához.

As if auditioning for widowhood, Sloane Wolfmann strolled in from poolside wearing black spiked-heeled sandals, a headband with a sheer black veil, and a black bikini of negligible size and made of the same material as the veil.

She leaped into widowhood with glee.

Women whose husbands were living were addressed as and referred to as Mrs. and their husband's name. After the husband's death, a woman may have been addressed as Mrs., her own first name, and her husband's surname.

start her gradual return to society. Black gowns gave way to grey, mauve, and lavender, and could now be made from silk instead of crape or bombazine. To alert the members of her circle that she was ready to face society, a widow would leave calling cards at the houses of her acquaintances. She would begin to accept more invitations, always being careful only to attend events that were not too joyful and to behave in ways respectful of the memory of her husband