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“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.”

Knows May Girl Aphorism Spinsters

Author:Nancy Mitford

“The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry... Imagine if you saw George Clooney on the cover of a magazine every week with, is George broody? Is George going to adopt a baby? When is George going to have another kid? It would just seem weird. We'd seem demented, yet it's totally valid for women.”

Ifs Knows Needs Seems Kids Attitude Saws Imagine Week Baby Magazines Barren Demented Spinsters

Author:Caitlin Moran

“Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.”

“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 Scientist Remains Faults China Physics Chinese Accomplishment Feminine Shameful Misconception Spinsters Women In Science

Author:Chien-Shiung Wu

“As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.”

Ten Critics Valuable Mediocre Barren Maternity Haughty Spinsters

Author:Peter Greenaway

“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.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“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).”

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Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.”

Heart Bird Monk Librarian Gardener Watchers Spinsters

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“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.”

Long Term Return Permanent Long Term Compliment Homosexual Monk Nun Bachelors Spinsters

Book:tha naked ape

Source: tha naked ape