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  • The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

  • Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.

    Fashion   Choices   Soul  
  • There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

    Hands   Age   Detectives  
    Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK
  • After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

    Enough   Spinsters   Ifs  
    Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.284, Harlequin
  • The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.

    "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.
  • If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

    Art   Thinking   Men  
  • 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 identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

    Book   Feelings   Towns  
    "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.
  • Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

    Girl   Widows   May  
    Love in a Cold Climate (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2
  • 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 (2007). “The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 2nd Edition”, p.184, Ignatius Press
  • I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

  • 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. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

    Talking   Years   Careers  
    "Talking dirty: quotes of the week". www.irishexaminer.com. February 20, 2002.
  • 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. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

    Strong   Aunt   Feminist  
  • Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.

    Sex   Black   Age  
    John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”
  • 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 return the compliment.

    desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”
  • She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
  • 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, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

    World   Patterns   Causes  
  • Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

    Girl   May   Aphorism  
    'Love in a Cold Climate' (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2
  • Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.

    Song   Brother   Years  
    Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”
  • Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

    Women   Blue   Long  
  • Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

    Mother   Husband   Son  
    Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
  • Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

    Real   Women   Names  
    Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan
  • Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

    Husband   Wife   Care  
    Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.260, e-artnow sro
  • 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 America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

    Men   America   Chinese  
    "Queen of Physics". "Newsweek" no. 61, 20, May 20, 1963.
  • TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.

    Girl   War   Airplane  
  • 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 of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

    Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media
  • Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?

    FaceBook post by Dannah Gresh from Dec 24, 2016
  • I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

  • Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.6, St. Martin's Press
  • 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, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

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