Alive Quote by Jen Kirkman

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

— Chath Piersath

When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a…

— Amy Hempel

Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was…

— Vivian Gornick

My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close. For as…

— Busy Philipps

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She…

— Steve Carell

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

— Diego Luna

My dad had died when I was four, so after my mum passed away, it was her parents - my amazing Nanna and Grandad…

— Ed Davey

My mama died when she was 35 years old.

— The-Dream

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

— John Hickenlooper

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could…

— Dervla Kirwan

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give…

— Julian Castro