Middle age Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need…

— Margaret Mitchell

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen

“Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as…

— R. YS Perez

“fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce…

— Gail Carriger

“It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”

— Laura Kinsale

“Her fingers were small in my hand but her grip was firm. I tried to place her age. Late twenties, maybe thirty. She looked…

— Barry Eisler

“So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and…

— Virginia Woolf

“It wasn't easy, but she was used to swallowing.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

“Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she’d grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each and every…

— Blue Kincaid

“Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.”

— John Hart

“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she…

— Rachel Autumn Deering