Quotes Tagged With :spinster

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

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital....

The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies....

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either....

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

...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave....

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the....

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a....

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