Broadway Butterfly

by Sara DiVello

The chance and fickleness of life, and death, could set a soul crazy if you let it.

Leave it to a man to think he should decide a woman’s identity, instead of honoring her as she’d wished to be known.

Women are the moral compass of society. We exert our good influences on our marriages, our children, the circles in which we move, and the communities in which we exist. Without us, the moral structure of society would disintegrate, and with that, society itself. So we forgive, even when our hearts are broken. We hold our heads up and march on when we feel as though we might die—because we’re women and we’re wives. It’s the bravest and best thing we can do—and our worlds, and the world at large, are far better for it.”