America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters... — Bertrand Russell 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
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any… — Germaine Greer 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
“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
“The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
“The pigment must be mixed with the tears of spinsters of good family, who must live long lives of impeccable virtue and… — Susanna Clarke 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
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 were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“Was it so very obvious that I was not married? Of course it was. For one thing, I had no husband with… — Tracy Chevalier 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
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
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the… — Gail Carriger 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
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
“Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our… — Alyxandra Harvey 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
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'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
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 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
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. — Tobsha Learner 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
The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully… — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
But 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
I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life.… — Noam Chomsky 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
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle 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
“If we are not married by within three months time, we shall be the first batch of spinsters in the history of… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Everyone looks for the first snowdrop as proof that our part of the earth is once more turning towards the sun, but… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
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