quotes about Spinsters

last updated: November 28, 2023

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.
-- Anne Stuart

Source : Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.284, Harlequin

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

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Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
-- Lisa Kleypas

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“Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.”
“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.”

Source : Lee Wyndham (1972). “Writing for children and teen-agers”, Writer's Digest Books
“Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.”
“It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and I'm not just thinking about them ...... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude”
“I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.”
“I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

Source : Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.
“Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.”
“I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture nowadays, that will change everything. and it's only just beginning.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 25, 2013.