Quotes About Widowhood

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

Esther Williams

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. 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.

Jean Genet

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

John Gay

#5. 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.

Thomas Pynchon

#6. I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

Carolyn Green

#7. The first stage of widowhood is paperwork.

Adriana Trigiani

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. 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.

Elisabeth Elliot

#10. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Nevada Barr

#11. The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled ...

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#12. Lady Kimbuck gave tongue. She was Lord Evenwood's sister. She spent a very happy widowhood interfering in the affairs of the various branches of her family.

P.G. Wodehouse

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

Deanna Raybourn

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#15. In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

Hector Hugh Munro

#17. What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Clara Barton

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

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. 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.

Amy Hempel

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

Gloria Steinem

#21. The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.

Panashe Chigumadzi

#22. Those that are in the state of widowhood must resist the temptations of their youth.

Nancy B. Brewer

#23. You're not a virgin and you didn't get divorced, but suddenly there's this thing you can start doing again with someone who is not your husband.

Ann Benjamin

#24. Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

Victor Robinson

#25. You are a writer when you can't not write.

Denise Pattiz Bogard

#26. One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

Mark Gatiss

#27. White ... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

Joan Mitchell

#28. A panic attack is interesting the way a broken leg or a kidney stone is interesting - a pain that you want to end.

Scott Stossel

#29. I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.

Ann Benjamin

#30. Love, unlike bills, never lasted. Hearts were made to wander.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.

Michael Richards

#32. What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?

Jess Walter

#33. You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.

Abby Fabiaschi

#34. An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#35. The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

Aristotle.

#36. Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

Jim Rohn

#37. Manners are love in a cool climate.

Quentin Crisp

#38. There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#39. 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.

Denise Hildreth Jones

#40. My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

Taylor Momsen

#41. If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner.

Steve Truglia

#42. If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

Jerry Seinfeld

#43. If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again ...

Ari Fleischer

#44. 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.

Shannon Celebi