Even Swift expressed fear about becoming a cat lady in a 2015 interview with the Telegraph. “’Childless’ — that’s often a choice,” Michals told CNN. “And ‘crazy’ can mean ...

Vance is far from the first person to invoke the trope of the crazy cat lady. The insult has literally been leveled against childless women for centuries. We know that ancient Egyptians ...

The stereotype of the childless cat lady or “crazy” cat lady mixes contempt for the image of the “spinster” that originated in the 18th century with the even older fear of the witch who ...

To disparage childless people saying they do not have a commitment ... I might have jokingly referred to myself as a crazy cat lady, but I carry no shame for never having children. I chose my career ...

He complained that the nation was being run by Democrats, corporate oligarchs, and "a bunch of childless cat ladies ... Through the years, the cat lady stereotype has been used in pop culture ...

The phrase “childless cat lady” hints at the more common phrase “crazy cat lady,” which evokes images of lonely, impaired women who become cat hoarders and are subjected in their old age ...