It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers' deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother's life like a stain. As a fourteen-year-old, Isabel had searched the dic...
It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I had the courage to seek out more of the seedy, the ...
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.
She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.
The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey widow-maker?
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
Foolishly; 'I am capable to kill love once again' for it is my longing that is unusual as the Black Widow.
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
[to his wife] Sam: Well, whaddya want? Do you want me to get killed? Do you want to be a widow, is that what you want?
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip. Up shone May, like gold, and soon Green as an arbour grew leafy June. And now all summer she sits a...
I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of inte...
Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
