Spinster
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Search complete. 32 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Spinster".
Sep 24, 2026
LernerHOST
And then they had Hester Leggett write the letters.
LernerHOST
She was a strict, unmarried senior secretary, cruelly nicknamed The Spin by her colleagues, short for Spinster.
LernerHOST
But she wrote these agonizingly desperate melodramatic love letters from Pam to Bill.
LernerHOST
I mean, the pathos is incredibly thick.
Jake MelitziaVOICE_ACTOR
Demand and Co.
Jake MelitziaVOICE_ACTOR
Please to pay Jane Austen, Spinster, the sum of 100 guineas on account of your humble servant, H.T. Austen.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Leslie Castle.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Letter the first is from Miss Margaret Leslie to Miss Charlotte.
Tess BellomoHOST
Well, we should rebrand spinster.
Tess BellomoHOST
Yeah.
Tess BellomoHOST
Spinster is like hot women that get married in their late 30s and early 40s.
Claire DonaldHOST
Like when they know themselves better.
Claire DonaldHOST
When it's like time.
Corinne KaplanHOST
Oh, I love advice questions.
Britney HaynesHOST
"Hello, Spinsters.
Britney HaynesHOST
I need some mild life advice.
Britney HaynesHOST
I have always been someone who struggles to be around people I don't care for, have something I want to say but can't.
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Britney HaynesHOST
No.
Corinne KaplanHOST
Then we have an Uncooked, and then it's the finale, right?
Britney HaynesHOST
My God, it's, like, coming really soon, but don't you worry, Spinsters, Corinne will be watching Survivor 51, and it starts-
Corinne KaplanHOST
Mm
Karen RaynerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Whores, they called us.
Karen RaynerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Spinsters, they called us.
Karen RaynerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Witches, they called us.
Karen RaynerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The fires blocked out the sun with their black smoke.
Kemper DonovanHOST
We have a couple of very traditional kind of clues, such as there's a reference to Dr. Shepard's weak character is very perceptive.
Kemper DonovanHOST
Spinster's sister Caroline at one point says, you are weak, James, with the bad bringing up.
Kemper DonovanHOST
Heaven knows what mischief he might have got into by now.
Kemper DonovanHOST
And that's even fairly early on.
DennisHOST
There's this connotation that the woman is single because she's difficult or picky or undesirable in some way.
DennisHOST
There has been something of a movement over time to reclaim the term spinster and recognize spinsters as women who issue marriage for a variety of reasons and retain their economic independence.
DennisHOST
So the first time I recall really thinking about the term spinster was thanks to Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' 1994 song, Spinster.
DennisHOST
from the album Pure and Simple, which is like many of Joan Jett's songs about independence and not needing to meet societal expectations.
DennisHOST
And it includes the lines like, I'm a spinster.