For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
'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.
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.
Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.
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.
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.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.