Quote by Margaret Mitchell

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

— Laura Kinsale

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“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

“If she were human, I’d judge her to be in her mid-forties. That didn’t sit in a negative column with her, though, because she…

— Jeaniene Frost

“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of nowhere and…

— B.J. Novak

“Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more…

— J.G. Ballard

“And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her well, and…

— Marie Corelli

“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that the boys…

— Liane Moriarty

“Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a…

— Danielle Steel

“I shook my head once and caught her glance, the wise and sullen look of a not quite adolescent girl who knew too much.”

— Dorothy Allison

“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions…

— Anne Perry