Quotes About Widowed

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Only old maids and women who'd been widowed for over ten years could apply for membership in the SLS. They had a firm belief that the close proximity of men clouded logical thinking. I tended to agree.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

However, "with the right intentions," she has said, "misyar can serve the noble purpose of helping divorced and widowed women financially."58 Zeinab Shahine, a professor of sociology at Egypt's Ain Shams University, agrees. According to Al-Ahram Weekly, there are certain conditions, Shahine believes, when

Lady Cinderford,' said the Dowager, referring to her widowed sister-in-law in accents of loathing, 'will act as hostess at Stanyon over my dead body!' 'That would be something quite out of the ordinary way,' murmured the Earl.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

The title of Kent Haruf's Our Souls at Night promised just that. I read it in a few hours, tranquilized by its tenderness for two widowed characters who find late-life intimacy in the simplest of ways.

Seduced by the warm confident woman. Intrigued by the widowed single mother who seemed to effortlessly juggle all the balls in the air. And to his utter astonishment, he fell in love with the messy, frustrated, unhappy woman with toys scattered at her feet.

years old and widowed. No children. He'd sold his insurance business

Connie is in her midthirties and lives with her widowed mother. The living arrangement isn't ideal for Connie, but she's a good Italian Catholic girl and family takes care of family.

I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy that no man's land - no woman's land - between youth and old age.

I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

Orba (feminine), the Latin word for orphaned, parentless, childless, widowed. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. But it has. Orbus, orba, orbum, orbi, orbae, orborum, orbo, orbis...

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

American mythology would have it that divorced or widowed women in their middle years were desperate to remarry. That had not been Polly's experience. Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed.