#widow

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#bloodiest #day #first #generals #hell

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change. ↗

— Diane Dettmann

#loss #renewal #spouse #widows #change

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. ↗

— James Martineau

#affections #grief #memory #only #widowed

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#character #daughter #daughters #elder #had

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#am #been #catch #had #i

Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course [.....], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furious, and disgusted, yes - but he had also made her feel beautiful, and protected, and loved. And oh, what she would give to feel loved right now. ↗

— Laura Brodie

#love #marriage #widows #beauty

Fate. Destiny. God. It´s all a crock. People want their lives to make sense want to sit back like cosmic detectives and examine what´s happened to them so far identifying the key turning points that shaped them and retro-actively imbuing these moments with a mystic aura like the celestial forces of the universe are a team of writers on the serialized television show of your life charged with concoting outrageously convoluted plotlines designed to achieve resolution by the end of the season. No one wants to believe that it´s all completely random that the direction of our lives is nothing more than a complex series of accidents little nuclear mushroom clouds and we´re just living in the fallout. ↗

— Jonathan Trooper

#design

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? ↗

— John Wesley

#christianity #clothing #compassion #evangelism #faithfulness

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. ↗

— Roman Payne

#men #pleasure #polygamy #roman-payne #widows