spinster
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Regarded in her time as "a reclusive spinster that never left her house", she was determined to be free to pursue a life of artistic expression.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
French-American author Lauren Elkin, who writes on art and culture, said a mythology pervaded that she was "this reclusive spinster that never left her house and lived at home with her cat making her paintings".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Ruth Buzzi, famous for her work as handbag-wielding spinster Gladys Ormphby on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” died Thursday, her family announced Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
They came more out of kindness than faith, giving the aging spinster a chance to recall her good old days in the tenements.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
"This is the nature of the debate on things this big, like tax reform," Ryan said."You've got pundits and spinsters and all of this spinmeisters out there, you know, confusing the public."
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
Between 1934 and 1939, two "nervous British spinsters" were regular visitors to the opera houses of Germany and Austria.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2017
Into this breach steps Bolick, offering her own story as inspiration to other spinsters, but it’s sometimes confusing how she thinks it could help.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015
Those financial rights could be enjoyed, however, by widows and spinsters.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2014
And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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