There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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.
Widow. The word consumes itself.
Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.