Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.
Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.
It was terribly important that such women should marry. The failure to marry--spinsterhood--implied a kind of dreadful crippling, for it was universally acknowledged that a woman's true position was t...