Exist Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that…

— Sarah McLachlan

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

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 should think…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving intelligently—“shrewdly” and “reasonably”—she is taking…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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