It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is… — Chien-Shiung Wu 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
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
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
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King Copy Share Image
TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac 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
“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
