Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers."
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Widows
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Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"Widow. The word consumes itself."
Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way."
Yoko Ono
Artist, Musician, Activist
"Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep."
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"Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell."
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"It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness."
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"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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"I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed."
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"As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends."
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"Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit."
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"The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not."
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"The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality."
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"The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom."
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"Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_."
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"Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices."
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"I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer."
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"Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend."
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"We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre."
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"Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]"
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"Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)"
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"A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds."
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"There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind."
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"Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world."
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"One can with dignity be wife and widow but once."
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