Best Spinster Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cause she doesn’t want to see another marriage. She’s getting old, and there ain’t a man alive who’d be wanting to take her on for his wife with her sharp, back-sassing tongue and all, which suits me and the rest of us fine. Every family needs to have a spinster to care for ma's and pa's in their old age.” Chapter 1: Joseph and Abigail”

Trust Forgiveness Intimacy Family Drama Historical Romance Strength Through Adversity Spinster Strangers To Lovers Scandalous Secret Sexy Farmer

Book:Nobody's Bride: A Nellie Bishop Romance

Source: Nobody's Bride: A Nellie Bishop Romance

“As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn't have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or because she ate him for dinner.”

Romance Standards Dating Dinner Spinster Stacey Lee Outrun The Moon Headmisstress Crouch

Book:Outrun the Moon

Source: Outrun the Moon

“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.”

Lonely Nagging Spinster Sharp Tongue Shew

Book:Bauhinia Junction

Source: Bauhinia Junction

“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me”

Creativity Solitude Spinster

Author:Kate Bolick

“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.”

Marriage Solitude Happy Marriage Spinster

Book:Immortality

Source: Immortality

“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.”

Cat Coffee Tea Candy Whiskey Cowboys Spinster

Book:The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

Middle Age Spinster Sharp Tongue Guard Against

Book:The Sunday Philosophy Club

Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club

“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”

England Spinster Debutante Montmaray

Book:A Brief History of Montmaray

Source: A Brief History of Montmaray

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

Love Falling In Love Spinster

Author:Kate Bolick

“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.”

Spinster

Book:Soulless

Source: Soulless

“I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.”

Love Spinster Boring Men

Book:A Proper Pursuit

Source: A Proper Pursuit

“I suppose an unmarried woman just over thirty, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved or interested in other people's business, and if she is also a clergyman's daughter then one might really say that there is no hope for her.”

Alone Spinster Unmarried Women Clergyman S Daughter

Book:Excellent Women

Source: Excellent Women

“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.”

Movies Cottage Spinster Merchant Ivory

Book:The Sky Beneath My Feet

Source: The Sky Beneath My Feet

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

Marriage Single Spinster

Book:The Secret Mandarin

Source: The Secret Mandarin

“I truly hate being a guest in someone's home...Worst of all, you have to 'make nice' at all hours. I don't want someone across the table from me while I'm eating my breakfast. I don't want to share the newspaper and I don't want to talk to anyone at the end of the day. If I were interested in that shit, I'd be married again by now and put a permanent end to all the peace and quiet.”

Single Life Spinster

Book:N is for Noose

Source: N is for Noose

“We all love Jamie too much to see him spend the rest of his life with only three decrepit old bags of bones for company." "I'm fifty-six," said Lucie indignantly. "I'm closer to Jamie's age than yours! Watch who you're calling a decrepit bag of bones." ... "Why is it you're never concerned about my romantic life, or lack thereof?" "Darling, you said it yourself, you're fifty-six," Ian said soothingly. "You're an established spin - " "If you say the word spinster, I'll skewer you on a spit.”

Humor Spinster

Book:The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Source: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“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.”

Spinster

Book:We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Source: We Love You, Charlie Freeman

“And heart's frosty discipline Exact as a snowflake. But here–a burgeoning Unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits Into vulgar motley– A treason not to be borne. Let idiots Reel giddy in bedlam spring: She withdrew neatly. And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to break With curse, fist, threat Or love, either.”

Love Alone Spinster Independent Womenendence

Author:Sylvia Plath

“During Mao’s era, the Chinese people were absolutely controlled by the Communist Party that decided food and accommodation, education and employment, what to think and say, and what to read and write about. ”--Interview with Zoë S. Roy, author of Spinster Kang”

Relationships Spinster Former Soviet Union Leftover Women Mao S China The Interracial Relationship Women Immigrants

Book:Spinster Kang

Source: Spinster Kang

“The virgins are certain there's a circle of hell dedicated to that fear you'll never find anyone else.”

Fear Relationships Anxiety Virgins Virgin Spinster Analicia Sotelo

Book:Virgin

Source: Virgin

“A spinster who cannot ‘spin’ a worthwhile ‘star’ is a fallen ‘star’.”

Humor Rhyme Star Spinster

Book:Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Nobody pushes a society to well-health than a spinster on a social mission and a bachelor on a personal one.”

Spinster

Book:Plotless

Source: Plotless

“The word spinster, mixed with stifled laughter from the living room, picked her ear like a needle. Will I ever escape the culture of my faraway country? she wondered.”

Humor Culture Shock Spinster Interracial Love

Book:Spinster Kang

Source: Spinster Kang

“A wide-brimmed spinster’s hat had been thrown up in the sky. It was gradually falling into the deep ocean.”

Humor Culture Shock Spinster Interracial Love

Book:Spinster Kang

Source: Spinster Kang

“I will read and draw, and have a wonderful time with all my dear nephews and nieces" Emma smiled, thinking on them. "Isabella dn John's children are all I will need to keep me happy. A niece can dote on me as I grow old.”

Single Woman Spinster Spinsterhood

Book:Jane Austen's Emma

Source: Jane Austen's Emma

“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was conducting research, determining whether I’d be truly content as a spinster.” “You wouldn’t be,” her father correctly surmised.”

Content Spinster Conducting Research

Book:One Winter with a Baron

Source: One Winter with a Baron

“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.”

Education Marriage Feminism Single Spinster

Book:Life After Life

Source: Life After Life