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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,…
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker,…
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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,…
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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work…
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine…
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune…
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never…
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The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old
— Groucho Marx
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
— Elizabeth Bennett
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I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
— Janet Reno
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
— Edna Ferber
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