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. Courtney Love
Fortune is like a widow won, And truckles to the bold alone. William Somervile
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. Charles Perrault
The son of an old man is an orphan, and his wife is a widow. Lebanese Proverb
What's all the world to a man when his wife is a widow. Irish Proverb
He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown into the dish. Spanish Proverb