Drying A Widow's Tears Is One Of

For In All The World There Are No People So Piteous And Forlorn As Those Who Are Forced To Eat The Bitter Bread Of Dependency In Their Old Age, And Find How Steep Are The Stairs Of Another Man's House. Wherever They Go They Know Themselves Unwelcome. Wherever They Are, They Feel Themselves A Burden. There Is No Humiliation Of The Spirit They Are Not Forced To Endure. Their Hearts Are Scarred All Over With The Stabs From Cruel And Callous Speeches.

There Isn't A Single Human Being Who Hasn't Plenty To Cry Over, And The Trick Is To Make The Laughs Outweigh The Tears.

It Is Only The Women Whose Eyes Have Been Washed Clear With Tears Who Get The Broad Vision That Makes Them Little Sisters To All The World.

I Have Learned To Live Each Day As It Comes, And Not To Borrow Trouble By Dreading Tomorrow. It Is The Dark Menace Of The Future That Makes Cowards Of Us.

There Is No Weapon In The Feminine Armory To Which Men Are So Vulnerable As They Are To A Smile.