You will be a widow before the morning.

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

“Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers'…

— M.L. Stedman

“I always wondered why they don’t have a word for a parent who loses a child. If I’d lost Ben, I’d be a widow.”

— Donna Grant

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

— Jackie Kennedy

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

— Christina Stead

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

— Deepa Mehta

The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out,…

— Guru Nanak

“...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...”

— R. Elizabeth Carpenter

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married,…

— Jane Austen

“Even though I don’t fear God or respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear…

— Anonymous

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across…

— Noam Chomsky

“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Rich widows are the only second-hand goods that sell at prime cost.

— Vikrant Parsai

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a…

— Lisa See