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• 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

  Girl, Names, Religion

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• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

  William Somervile

  Fortune

  William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.78

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• Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Class, Firsts, Rich

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Hate, Men

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.436, Macmillan

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• Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fruit, Ripe Fruit, Ripe

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• Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Responsibility, Office, Church

  Carolyn Custis James (2011). “The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah

  Retirement, Widows And Orphans, People

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• When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

  Henry Fielding

  Wedding, Men, Widows And Orphans

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.601

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• Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

  Mick Ralphs

  Wife, World, Internet

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• Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."

  Vivien Leigh

  Life, Mother, Looks

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• Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
  No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
  Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

  Al-Ghazali

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Lying

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• My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Charity, Way

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• Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Twelve, Handsome, Limits

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• By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Men, Law

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• A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Children, Husband, Losing A Loved One

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• Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

  Martin Mayer

  Men, Handsome, Visiting

  Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

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• The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

  Sacha Guitry

  Jealousy, Wife, Dear

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• Young widows still bide their time.

  Josh Billings

  Young, Stills

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• There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

  Rebecca West

  Grief, Cutting, Grace

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

  Jane Austen

  Doe, Remarriage

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• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Odds, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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• I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

  Ned Kelly

  Son, Order, Giving

  Jerilderie Letter, www.nma.gov.au. 1879.

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• The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.

  Cornel West

  Gay, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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