A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. — Florence King Being a grandmother Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. — Florence King Known Copy Share Image
In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama. — Florence King Big Copy Share Image
“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?” — Florence King Book Copy Share Image
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat. — Florence King Democrat Copy Share Image
“For a girl gone wrong, you can't beat the banks of the Wabash.” — Florence King Girl Copy Share Image
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. — Florence King Bars Copy Share Image
The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses. — Florence King Enjoy Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Metaphors Copy Share Image
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. — Florence King Building Copy Share Image
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. — Florence King Conventions 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
“Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation… — Florence King Abortion 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… — Florence King Bones Copy Share Image
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being… — Florence King Able 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 America Copy Share Image
We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal… — Florence King Anything Copy Share Image
The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag… — Florence King American woman Copy Share Image
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative… — Florence King Cardinal rules 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 America 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 Absolute monarchy Copy Share Image
Feminists, I hasten to add, are not all bad. In fact, they are an ideal bellwether, an invaluable aid in helping me… — Florence King Bad 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 America Copy Share Image
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the… — Florence King Able Copy Share Image
Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an… — Florence King Face 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 Aging 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 America Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Assumption Copy Share Image
“If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup,… — Florence King Feminism 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 America 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 Able Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Action 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 Books Copy Share Image
