Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
Widow. The word consumes itself.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
War is failure of diplomacy.
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