Boring-men Quote by Lynn Austin

“Spinsterhood didn’t matter much to her; she was already married to science.”

— Lev A.C. Rosen

“You're so pretty, Elizabeth,... Why, I'd never have taken you for a spinster.”

— Debra Holland

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

— Laura Kinsale

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers…

— Philippa Gregory

“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 wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was conducting research, determining whether I’d be truly content as a spinster.” “You wouldn’t be,” her…

— Christi Caldwell

“married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

“Was it so very obvious that I was not married? Of course it was. For one thing, I had no husband with me, looking…

— Tracy Chevalier

“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

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring…

— Eliza Maxwell

“Miss Tarabotti felt such rules did not entirely apply to her, as she was a spinster. Had been a spinster for as long as…

— Gail Carriger