Widow Spiders

Famous quotes containing the words widow and/or spiders:

    “A widow has two duties of a contradictory nature—she is a mother, and she ought to exert a father’s power.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Only the rich remember the past,
    The strawberries once in the Apennines,
    Philadelphia that the spiders ate.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)