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
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around. — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“You're so pretty, Elizabeth,... Why, I'd never have taken you for a spinster.” — Debra Holland Copy Share Image
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“The virgins are certain there's a circle of hell dedicated to that fear you'll never find anyone else.” — Analicia Sotelo Copy Share Image
“Nobody pushes a society to well-health than a spinster on a social mission and a bachelor on a personal one.” — Mantaranjot Mangat Copy Share Image
“You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.” — Margaret Way Copy Share Image
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes. — Caitlin Moran 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“I suppose an unmarried woman just over thirty, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“And heart's frosty discipline Exact as a snowflake. But here–a burgeoning Unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits Into vulgar motley–… — Sylvia Plath 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
The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“For the first time, she enjoyed the freedom of being a thirty-year-old spinster. This was a distinctly compromising situation that no schoolroom… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“We all love Jamie too much to see him spend the rest of his life with only three decrepit old bags of… — Sangu Mandanna Copy Share Image
“Blast. This day had not gone as planned. By this time, he was supposed to be well on his way to the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to relax. I don’t want to … oh, dear Lord.” He had bent his head to her throat, searching… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“He said it. He said it. He said it. He said what he was thinking. 40-year old spinster. It hurt. It hurt.… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats. — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“A wide-brimmed spinster’s hat had been thrown up in the sky. It was gradually falling into the deep ocean.” — Zoë S. Roy Copy Share Image
“A spinster who cannot ‘spin’ a worthwhile ‘star’ is a fallen ‘star’.” — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
“I would rather die a spinster—poor, ruined, scorned, and alone—than suffer that heartbreak daily.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image