Quotes by Widowhood There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out. Alexander McCall Smith widowhood should would-be the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh widowhood finals independent 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 widowhood suffering years You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood. Hector Hugh Munro brevity widowhood soul If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood. Mahatma Gandhi widowhood poison would-be There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. Richard Brinsley Sheridan widowhood uncles earth Widow. The word consumes itself. Sylvia Plath widowers widowhood widows