#spinster

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

— Billy Sunday

#old-maid #spinsterhood #marriage

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

Spinster: a woman who wants to be free from a man’s bondage, so she goes to work for an employer and remains unburdened by someone willing to pay her mortgage. By virtue of not wading into the gene pool, she never has children who might betray her to a nursing home – her neighbors find some excuse to do that. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #single #spinster #funny

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

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #marriage #single #spinsterhood #marriage

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

— Lisa Kleypas

#humor #marriage #poppy #spinster #humor

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

#merchant-ivory #movies #spinster #love

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

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

#middle-age #sharp-tongue #spinster #age

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#women #beauty

One well-meaning aunt had even told Amanda of her belief that the Lord had kept her from marrying solely to provide someone to take care of her ailing parents. Amanda would have preferred the Almighty had made other arrangements. Apparently it had not occurred to anyone that Amanda might have caught a husband, had the remaining years of her youth not been expended in caring for her mother and father. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#relatives #romance #spinsters #life