She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

She was a remarkable woman. She was very outgoing and would talk to anybody, to the point that she'd recruit kids out of some of the worst areas in Los Angeles to go on these backpacking trips.

If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.