| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 871e9a3 | Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car. | single spinster spinsterhood | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 998799b | 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. | singleness spinsterhood | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 357c1f9 | "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." | spinsterhood woman | Michael Crichton |