Attitude Quote by Caitlin Moran

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

— Caitlin Moran

When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be…

— Jo Beverley

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

— Myrtle Reed

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might…

— Jilly Cooper

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

— Elizabeth Bowen

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

— Mae West

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds…

— Dodie Smith

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a…

— Eric Hoffer

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

— Virginia Woolf

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

— Josh Billings