Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well. — Florence King Hate Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. — Florence King Cigarette Copy Share Image
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat — Florence King Golf Copy Share Image
There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime. — Florence King Entire life Copy Share Image
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous. — Florence King Education Copy Share Image
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Atheism Copy Share Image
Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old… — Florence King Being single Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Betrayal Copy Share Image
Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down… — Florence King Calming Copy Share Image
“The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism.… — Florence King Age of reason Copy Share Image
You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor,… — Florence King Comedy Copy Share Image
“To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death,… — Florence King Death Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia… — Florence King Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around,… — Florence King Celibacy Copy Share Image
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Books Copy Share Image
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things. — Florence King Copy Share Image
There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. — Florence King Copy Share Image
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor. — Florence King Baseball Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Democracy Copy Share Image
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. — Florence King Families Copy Share Image
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will… — Florence King Dating Copy Share Image
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a… — Florence King Depression Copy Share Image
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for… — Florence King Copy Share Image
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes… — Florence King Actor Copy Share Image
Optimists don't mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel. — Florence King Copy Share Image
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration… — Florence King Admiration Copy Share Image
