Spinster Quote by Gail Carriger

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

— Laura Kinsale

“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

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You have to understand, Annika, that I have pretty much resigned myself to spinsterhood since, I don't know, since approximately my entire life. But…

— Tom Rachman

“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“she was a congenitally ungraceful girl with a mortifying inaptitude for all accomplishments.”

— Debbie Cowens

“But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to be wise…

— Robertson Davies

“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with…

— Muriel Spark

“Cause she doesn’t want to see another marriage. She’s getting old, and there ain’t a man alive who’d be wanting to take her on…

— Laura Langdon

“All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning…

— Omar El Akkad