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Spinsterhood Is Powerful

IT IS TYPICAL of America that having invented efficiency apartments, singles bars, Soup for One, and That Cosmopolitan Girl, we have dropped spinster from the language and consider old maid a sexist slur.

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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Spinsterhood Is Powerful

IT IS TYPICAL of America that having invented efficiency apartments, singles bars, Soup for One, and That Cosmopolitan Girl, we have dropped spinster from the language and consider old maid a sexist slur.