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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lasts, Analysis, Spinsters
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

Peter Greenaway
Maternity, Barren, Spinsters
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.

Caitlin Moran
Attitude, Needs, Spinsters
"Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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

Lisa Kleypas
Levels, Depravity, Spinsters
Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.6, St. Martin's Press

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

Jeffrey Eugenides
Writing, Weight, Spinsters
Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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

Anne Stuart
Enough, Spinsters, Ifs
Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.284, Harlequin

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