I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?” — Florence King Copy Share Image
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Womendesperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump… — 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 Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — 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
