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I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.
Lily Tomlin
Funny
Time
You
Women
Comedy
Old
Threat
Maid
Had
Powerful
Stereotype
Supposed
Attractive
Because
Were
Up
Very
Overweight
Grew
Old Maid
Really
Homely
Play
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
Death
You
Struggle
Old
Delightful
Maid
Drowning
Like
Cease
Sensation
Being
After
Old Maid
Really
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
Evelyn Waugh
You
Money
Old
Lost
Finally
Only
Maid
Like
Odd
Left
Get
Old Maid
Useful
Rid
Who
Card
Player
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Lafcadio Hearn
Woman
Natural
Old
Type
Destiny
Poetry
Prevents
Maid
Seldom
Misfortune
Ideal
Sorrow
Very
Old Maid
Fulfilling
Whom
Her
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
Lana Turner
Old
Men
Girl
Says
Find
Maid
Exciting
She
Terribly
Saint
Any
Old Maid
Who
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
Thomas Nelson Page
Woman
Old
Would
Maid
Remarkable
Had
She
Been
Very
Old Maid