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

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician with great business flair and marketing ability.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone it's freaky.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then suddenly to be living alone as the President's widow?