"I will not apologize for waiting," says the Old Maid
"I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill." -Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice Like many women my age (and more men than most would admit), I am a huge Jane Austen fan and have been for many years. Whether I am re-devouring the books or sighing and daydreaming with the movies, her storylines are still so universally applicable to relationships and the longing people feel for them. They are clever, witty, sardonic, true. And I'm not going to lie, one of my favorite tools she employs is her biting sarcasm and her parody of the class system and the eternal struggle for a well-paying and bearable marriage. So, this is nothing new. Austen fans surround the world. But one such insistence placed upon her in her life in 1800's England t