#widow

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61] ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#men

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

— Nigella Lawson

#happily #married #people #statistically #tend

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record. ↗

— Courtney Love

#haven #i #made #make #record

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#continuous #crime #even #hell #oppress

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#back #been #black #boyhood #easy

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#continuing #deranged #feel #feeling #i

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. ↗

— Dave Obey

#borne #care #charge #country #debt

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#explicit #hope #lover #refusal #seldom

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

— Gloria Steinem

#hood #making #men #only #path

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. ↗

— Aubrey de Vere

#memory #naked #stands #tombstone #weeds