Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King 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 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 Copy Share Image
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new… — Florence King Copy Share Image
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King Copy Share Image
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically… — Florence King Copy Share Image
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by… — Florence King Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped… — Florence King Copy Share Image
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist… — Florence King Copy Share Image
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. — Florence King Copy Share Image
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world. — Florence King Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street — Florence King Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt. — Florence King Copy Share Image
