1.
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
2.
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
3.
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
Caitlin Moran
4.
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.
Anne Stuart
5.
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
Jeffrey Eugenides
6.
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
Lisa Kleypas