Old maids, cat ladies, spinsters, … It’s often scornful, the worst thing that could happen to a woman, but who is driving that image? Who is selling this to you as a negative thing? Because up to the last say fifty years, if you were a woman adamant not to have children, you only path was celibacy. There’s so few women’s voices put forward, but despite what the men would have you think, most of those old maids weren’t unable to get themselves a man; they merely chose not to have children, to live a life chained to domestic labour for an ungrateful man.














