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)

“The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)