The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels;... the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid--these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a... single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with ...them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful... a piece of policy as ever was invented.... The ridicule fixed on the appellation of old maid hath, I doubt not, frightened a very large number into the bonds of wedlock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fo...ols; and every wise man knows himself to be one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Sea Tiger was built to fight. She deserves a better epitaph than "Commissioned 1940. Sank 1941. Engagements, none. Shots fired..., none." Now you can't let her go that way. That's like a beautiful woman dying an old maid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's ...all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. T...o say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »