I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.
~ Kate Atkinson
Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.
~ Milan Kundera
...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me
~ Kate Bolick
You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.
~ Margaret Way
Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.
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
