Spinster Quotes

#1. My body was a reststop for the lonely and I was the spinster innkeeper.

Lena Dunham

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

Debra Holland

#3. In our time, Universalism as such, like a spinster lady late in life, took a husband, and although they agreed to hyphenate their married name, by now the offspring of that union often simply call themselves by the husband's name, and in time may not recognize her name at all.

Max Coots

#4. He blinked. He had the sense that he was lost in those quiet gray eyes, unable to look away from her. He was a duke. She was a - what had she called herself? A half-blind near-spinster. It shouldn't even have been a fair fight.

Courtney Milan

#5. You have never been married? You are a spinster?" Diana laughed. "Why, she can't be above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she. "I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. 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.

Nancy Mitford

#7. Judith Brigham expected her daughter to remain a spinster the rest of her life. In the more pungent phraseology of her soon-to-be stepfather, "Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match." He

Stephen King

#8. When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Jo Beverley

#9. I need you to be my foil!" she wailed. "I need someone to disagree with him, so I can agree with him and support him like a good wife should! Please, Evelyn! I cannot become a ruined spinster!

Tarun Shanker

#10. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

Caitlin Moran

#11. It was a business that engaged a significant part of the nation; the wool was given to village women to comb and to spin before being sent to the weaver; to this day, an unmarried woman is known as a spinster.

Peter Ackroyd

#12. I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

Gemma Arterton

#13. Choosing to do things your way may doom me to be a penniless spinster."
"If Christ called you to be penniless, would you not become so willingly?

Melissa Jagears

#14. If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.

Lisa Samson

#15. I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.

Louisa May Alcott

#16. 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.

Gail Carriger

#17. The word spinster hid behind it a blazing freedom.

Lauren Groff

#18. I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.

Marlon James

#19. I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.

Lynn Austin

#20. 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

#21. I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster.

Max Beerbohm

#22. You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

Margaret Way

#23. Fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he: mere

William Shakespeare

#24. Miss Tarabotti felt such rules did not entirely apply to her, as she was a spinster. Had been a spinster for as long as she could remember. In her more acerbic moments, she felt she had been born a spinster.

Gail Carriger

#25. I would rather die a spinster - poor, ruined, scorned, and alone - than suffer that heartbreak daily.

Tessa Dare

#26. It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.

Laura Kinsale

#27. There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Agatha Christie

#28. There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Sarah MacLean

#29. It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Myrtle Reed

#30. 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

#31. Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would a Larry de Luce have been more understanding?
'Hell, no!' I shouted into the wind ...

Alan Bradley

#32. Quin took on the air of someone who has just realized it's time for the yearly visit to the spinster great-aunt in a desperate attempt to woo her inheritance away from her thirty-eight cats.

Amy Fecteau

#33. And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster.

Annie Barrows

#34. First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette's chew toy alone - )

Jess Walter

#35. A female may be poor or delicate or a spinster, but it does seem ill-advised of Miss Liddiard to combine all three.

Zen Cho

#36. How precisely, had a arrived at this? He was taking orders from a spinster, willingly submitting himself to her medieval torture devices. And she wasn't even naked.
-Bram's thoughts

Tessa Dare

#37. Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.

Eleanor Brown

#38. Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

Lisa Kleypas

#39. The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.

Elizabeth Peters

#40. I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.

Winifred Holtby

#41. I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.

Sara Sheridan

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

#43. I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

Daphne Guinness

#44. 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.

Gloria Steinem

#45. At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

Juliana Hatfield

#46. An old maid, that's what I'm to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps ...

Louisa May Alcott

#47. Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Jerome Charyn

#48. 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.

Gail Carriger

#49. After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Anne Stuart

#50. She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point of spinning her wildly across the floor. Once she had fallen, and thereafter she'd declined all invitations.

Meredith Duran

#51. He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

Philippa Gregory

#52. Money began talking to Ben again
not big money this time, but little money. It niggled and nagged and carped and whined at him, as full of fears and bitterness as a spinster witch.
Money Talks

Kurt Vonnegut

#53. If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.

Sarah MacLean

#54. dull - she did not, with equal longing, wish to be a part of the whispering spinster chorus at the edge of other, more interesting lives. She

Alice McDermott

#55. [T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.

Ioanna Karystiani

#56. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

Germaine Greer

#57. Cormac's eyes eyes narrow. "She wasn't half the Spinster you are, Adelice."
"I'm half the person she was," I say with a shrug, barely keeping my voice steady. "So I guess it evens out.

Gennifer Albin

#58. The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of speaking of children's hearts as if they were something holy; it is hard for a parent to know what to say.

Alice Munro

#59. 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.

Kylie Minogue

#60. Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Lisa Kleypas

#61. I am not beautiful and I am sarcastic and I believe I am better than most in this town and that is why I am a thirty-six-year-old orphan with no husband and why no man in Spring City has ever even held my hand.

Kaitlyn Greenidge

#62. Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

Milan Kundera

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

Lisa Kleypas

#64. And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.

Catherynne M Valente

#65. I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

Kate Atkinson

#66. Every time she allowed her gaze to wander to the group at the piano, she found Lord Wentworth's eyes on her. In the end it was easier to study the patterns in the ornate rug on which her chair sat. She was glad when the evening ended.

Susan Leona Fisher

#67. The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society

Michelle Cooper

#68. Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.

Kate Bolick