Widow

Widows of Uganda supporting each other by working on crafts in order to sell them and make an income

A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died.

Quotes

• She is concerned for the orphan and concerned for the widow.
  She does not forget the man who helps others,
  she is a mother for the orphan;
  Nance, a carer for the widow,
  who always finds advice for the debt-slave;
  the lady who gives protection for refugees.
  She seeks out a place for the weak.
  She swells his collecting basket for him;
  she makes his collecting vessel profitable for him.
  For the righteous maiden who has taken her path,
  Nance chooses a young man of means.
  Nance raises a secure house like a roof over the widow who could not remarry.
  • Anonymous, A hymn to Nanshe, late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

• WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

• He first deceased; she for a little tried
  To live without him, liked it not, and died.
  • Sir Henry Wotton, "Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife"

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