spinster
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This image may have been reinforced by a book Augustus wrote about her after her death that painted her as "this crazy spinster lady who lived in Paris".
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
Buzzi herself told The Times in 2011 about working with John Wayne on the variety show, including in one sketch where Gladys wasn’t a spinster.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
"Why is spinster somehow negative? I really think it's great."
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2023
I was also forty years old—practically a spinster by that era’s standards.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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