Spinsters Quotes
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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.
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
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.
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.
The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.