Widow Quotes · Page 2

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

— Courtney Love

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

— Joseph Joubert

“You will be a widow before the morning.”

— Georgette Heyer

I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold]

— Roseanne

I cant take u virgin, I'l wait u widow.

— Siotto Castello

“A man is little use when his wife’s a widow. Scottish proverb”

— Colin Dexter

The son of an old man is an orphan, and his wife is a widow.

— Ali Bassam

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

— Christina Stead

“The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“And because I’m a widow, you assume I’m ripe to your trickery and silver tongue.” “I’m a Roma. You describe my specialty.”

— Josie Riviera

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

— Faith Baldwin

“Two homes on either side of the road saw Two women waving a good bye to their men One was a newly…

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

As a widow and a caregiver and a single mother, I'm living the experience that New Mexicans are.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

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

— Deepa Mehta

“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…

— Donna Grant

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front…

— Heidi Baker

'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be…

— Joe Flaherty

Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath.…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman…

— Robert Jordan

For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The…

— Blythe Danner

Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light…

— Maria Brink

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,…

— Tracy Anne Warren

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary…

— Honore de Balzac

“not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear…

— Jane Austen

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When…

— Anonymous

“What changes when a woman marries? What does a woman lose and what does she gain? For Abishag, marrying king David gave…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

“In a drawl so low, it seemed to suspend time, the old man said, "When the last leaf falls from the Widow's…

— Alex Bledsoe

“Hang you, DeVere! She's a close friend, nothing more." He furrowed his brow once again. "Though I do fear of late that…

— Victoria Vane

“It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him,…

— Charles Dickens

Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“A women... A widow all alone to face the worst hell imagineable after the death of her husband, Stalked by evil at…

— Alexis Moon

“I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart”

— Rumi

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

— Anonymous

“For the widow inhabits a tale not of her own telling.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Vikrant Parsai

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

— Alexander Herzen

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Christina Stead