Approval Quote by Helen Rowland

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

— Pierce Brosnan

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

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don't really feel that way. I have higher confidence in…

— Rita Marley

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

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

“Men who start new relationships are judged less harshly. Women are expected to carry the torch of love, and when the flame is extinguished…

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

— Helen Rowland

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