#widow

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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

It's life that's all. There are no happy endings just happy days happy moments. The only real ending is death and trust me no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.


Jonathan Trooper


#change

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


Gloria Steinem


#feminism #men #murder #widowhood #women

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


#biblical #church #deacon #widows #women

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.


Wilford Brimley


#i #partner #ranch #seven #sons

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.


Jennifer Estep


#gin-blanco #love #owen #scheme #thread

Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes.


K. Martin Beckner


#humor #natural-causes #widow #death