I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in… — Tennessee Williams 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
I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters... — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being… — Kylie Minogue 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
America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing.… — Gene Weingarten 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
“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
Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“At first reading, these are stories about love and marriage and the conventional heterosexual happily-ever-after. Only at the second does a sneaky… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly… — Loretta Chase 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
“The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
