'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Widow. The word consumes itself.
For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.
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 elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
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 going to fall apart.
There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.
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