I'm a spinster! I spin well!

A few comforting words for single/childless people on the planet

A while back I was reading British radical Sara Maitland’s How to Be Alone and learned the origins of the word spinster.

“In the Middle Ages the word “spinster” was a compliment. A spinster was someone, usually a woman, who could spin well: a woman who could spin well was financially self-sufficient – it was one of the very few ways that mediaeval women…