Old Maids Quotes

“Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named after a flat, spiny, prehistoric-looking fish.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Terror of Blue John Gap