81 Quotes About Widows

Do not refuse to help widows nor orphans.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

Young widows are always a painful sight to see. Jilted brides are even more pitiful than young widows—at least widows had been loved and cherished.

Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death germ] turns out to have been something of a feminist.

You're not a virgin and you didn't get divorced, but suddenly there's this thing you can start doing again with someone who is not your husband.

It's never too late to start over!

You can’t live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can’t live Evan’s life for him. He won’t thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a shelf.

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.