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1 " When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878 "
― Margaret Brownley , A Vision of Lucy (A Rocky Creek Romance, #3)
2 " No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy. "
― , Tremble: Erotic Tales of the Mystical and Sinister
3 " I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." " Why not? Because I'm a woman?" " No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood. "
4 " I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding. "
― Douglas Coupland , Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People
