Beautiful Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry,…

— Helen Rowland

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

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

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

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

— Helen Rowland

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

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

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

There is no PhD in widowhood. When it's very new, you are often surrounded by good friends, but there is a point when people…

— Maureen Lipman

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

— John Gay

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not…

— Emmylou Harris