Quotes About Spinsterhood

#1. Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Florence King

#2. Her impending spinsterhood must be bothering her more than she realized if a servant was catching her attention in such a way. Of course, he was a very nicely put together servant.

Kristi Ann Hunter

#3. Spinsterhood didn't matter much to her; she was already married to science.

Lev A.C. Rosen

#4. 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 to try to be attractive.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

#6. She wondered if Hallmark made a card for women like her - "Happy Valentine's Day. One more year celebrating your spinsterhood.

Kathleen Brooks

#7. He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

#8. Will there not be any scandal if she marries *me*? I asked
not quite believing that living in pseudo-wedlock with a half-human foreign transvestite was any improvement over spinsterhood.

Marie Brennan

#9. Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

Florence King

#10. Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Florence King

#11. Don't be fretting ... about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. You love me," he argued, his voice soft, low. "I've seen it.

Samantha Young

#13. Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Fairfax Cone

#15. The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

Dennis Hastert

#17. Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named after a flat, spiny, prehistoric-looking fish.

Christina Baker Kline

#18. Without a doubt ... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Millicent Fenwick

#20. One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.

George Deukmejian

#21. Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

Billy Sunday

#22. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Samantha Barks