I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
“If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and… — Lisa Samson Copy Share Image
“I will read and draw, and have a wonderful time with all my dear nephews and nieces" Emma smiled, thinking on them.… — Katy Birchall Copy Share Image
“And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn't have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or… — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
“Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“All this time she’d thought it God’s will that she be a spinster. She had grown content with that expectation, taking satisfaction… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
“Cause she doesn’t want to see another marriage. She’s getting old, and there ain’t a man alive who’d be wanting to take… — Laura Langdon Copy Share Image
“To remain a spinster was to be societally “redundant,” but to marry, for a girl, was to be absorbed into the self… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“During Mao’s era, the Chinese people were absolutely controlled by the Communist Party that decided food and accommodation, education and employment, what… — Zoë S. Roy Copy Share Image
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“I am not beautiful and I am sarcastic and I believe I am better than most in this town and that is… — Kaitlyn Greenidge Copy Share Image
“The word spinster, mixed with stifled laughter from the living room, picked her ear like a needle. Will I ever escape the… — Zoë S. Roy Copy Share Image
“She could see the headlines now. ‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’ She had… — Diane Merrill Wigginton Copy Share Image
“If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.” — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“What does the word “spinster” do that “bachelor” doesn’t do? Why do they carry different associations? These are language acts, people!” — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
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