Widow's Legacy: How Mother's Day Celebrates Love, Resilience, and Remembrance

Were you aware that Mother’s Day was established in honor of a widow?

Quotes collected from real moms at Modern Widows Club® The Movement for Widow Care™ (MWC).

“Motherhood has never felt more important since being widowed.” - Donna Z

“There simply is not an ‘easy fix’ for what ails the aching heart of a widowed mother on the deepest level” - Sandra K

“It is true that no one can really know what it is like for another in their pain, but have we lost the ability to even take a pause to imagine for 15 minutes or 15 hours of what it would feel like to walk in a widowed mothers painful footsteps” - Linda K

“Because no widowed mom should be left alone in the most stressful moments of her life” - Becky R

“Widowhood and Motherhood together is a subculture of women who are often undervalued, isolated, stigmatized and deemed voiceless socially, economically, emotionally, and spiritually. Yet, when empowered they dispel every societal myth about their true reality of becoming extraordinary examples of resilience and possibility for themselves, others and their familie…