Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King 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 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
“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
