Spinsterhood Quotes

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  Florence King

  Real, Feminism, Double Standard

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

  Florence King

  Single, Powerful, Crazy

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  Florence King

  Real, Feminism, Gender

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

  Florence King

  Feminism

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

  Florence King

  Real, Women, Names

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• A woman is a hunter without a forest.

  Christina Stead

  Women, Hunters, Forests

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.84, The Miegunyah Press

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