Spinsterhood Quotes

“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

“Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.”
― Billy Sunday

“Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road

“She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“And thank goodness Jane did not meet in real life an Edmund Bertram, or a Mr Knightley, because if she had married she would doubtless, like her niece Anna, have produced human rather then paper progeny. So – for their failures of courage or determination – we can, must, give thanks to Charles Powlett, who wanted to kiss Jane when she was twenty; to Tom Lefroy, seen off by Madam Lefroy; to the talkative Reverend Samuel Blackall; to the silent Harris Bigg-Wither; to the Reverend Edward Bridges; to Robert Holt-Leigh, the dodgy MP who flirted with Jane in 1806; and to William Seymour, her brother Henry’s lawyer, who failed to ask Jane to marry him as they travelled in that carriage.”
― Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen at Home

“Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named after a flat, spiny, prehistoric-looking fish.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal

“Spoločnosť je vždy najkrutejšia k tým, ktorí prezrádzajú jej tajomstvo a upozorňujú, že svojou falošnosťou sa dopúšťa zločinu voči ľudskej prirodzenosti."
(Stefan Zweig o dehonestácii nevydatých žien za Rakúsko-Uhorska).- Svet včerajška-”
― Stefan Zweig

“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.”
― Katy Birchall, Jane Austen's Emma

“It was terribly important that such women should marry. The failure to marry--spinsterhood--implied a kind of dreadful crippling, for it was universally acknowledged that "a woman's true position was that of administratrix, mainspring, guiding star of the home," and if she was unable to perform this function, she became a sort of pitiful social misfit, an oddity.”
― Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery

“Daylight meant that she must exist in a world that was growing darker and darker because she knew that there was not a man within miles who wanted a plain twenty-nine-year-old spinster.”
― Laura Langdon