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
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
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
“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life. — Patricia Routledge 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
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they… — Desmond Morris 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
“Perhaps, however, it is the same with spinsters as with ghosts; and one has to be of their ranks in order to… — Sarah Waters 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
“Oh, well, naturally I’ve read a few novels. And then, too," she went on, “there are broad plays and musical shows and… — Olive Higgins Prouty 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
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
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
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
Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day?… — Dannah Gresh 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
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
“married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were… — Tracy Chevalier 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
People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor… — Jilly Cooper 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
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin 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
“One night he said abruptly: Stephen won't marry—I don't want her to marry; it would only mean disaster.' And at this Anna… — Radclyffe Hall 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 cannot agree with the gentleman in the magenta coat that Potter’s Pond is only a wretched little hamlet. But it is… — G.K. Chesterton 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
America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. — Bertrand Russell 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
“Given her ladyship's propensity for attracting deceased persons. Like an aged spinster attracts cats.” — Verity Bright 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
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield 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
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. — Wilkie Collins 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
