Widowhood Quotes

Widow. The word consumes itself.

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 is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

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

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.