"Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)"
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"A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds."
"There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind."
"Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world."
"One can with dignity be wife and widow but once."