spinster

The author is looking for a job and taking allergy shots so that she can one day become a spinster with two cats.

“What I saw with the first show was that the people that came did not fit the model of the hoarder, spinster, crazy cat lady,” she said.

“The secretary of agriculture responded to ‘Silent Spring’ by asking ‘why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics,’” Shapland writes.

"Look at me," she declares to her spinster daughters in one scene.

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who is raising Estella as she conspires to meddle in Pip’s life, famously wears a wedding dress she hasn’t taken off since being left at the altar years before.