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'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

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.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

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

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.