Done Quote by Amala Akkineni

Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a…

— Fay Weldon

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number…

— Michelangelo

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my…

— Jen Kirkman

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

— John Gay

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

— Colonel Sanders

I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the death of…

— Frances Bean Cobain

I've gotten married, lost my job and become a widow on the same day.

— Donna Noble

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

— Helen Rowland