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No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy. -- Tobsha Learner
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp. -- David Nicholls
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt, -- Ann B. Davis
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. -- Laura Linney
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent? -- William Butler Yeats
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy. -- Marcel Proust
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. -- Christopher Hitchens
I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother ... I don't want to spend that kind of time. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have time to raise a child. -- Chelsea Handler
I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. -- Eric Dickerson
Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat. -- J. K. Rowling
If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us. -- Robert Barron
This is getting ugly." "? Abigail "Like my great-aunt's underpants." "? Sundown -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt. -- Ann B. Davis
Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class. -- Richard Sherman
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write. -- Wendi Deng Murdoch
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson. -- Jamie Dornan

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