Spinsters Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster.… — Kylie Minogue
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats. — Gemma Arterton
America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. — Bertrand Russell
The word 'barren' tells you everything you need to know. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women… — Caitlin Moran
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;… — Rod Liddle
It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in… — Chien-Shiung Wu
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. — Peter Greenaway
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
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new… — Eric Hoffer
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel… — Gloria Steinem
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness.… — Tobsha Learner
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. — Wilkie Collins
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe,… — Gail Carriger
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all. — Daphne Guinness
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the… — Louisa May Alcott
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all,… — Gail Carriger

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