“Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation… — Florence King Feminism 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… — Florence King Age 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… — Florence King Alpha male 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 America Copy Share Image
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. — Florence King Feminism Copy Share Image
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world. — Florence King Faux Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Confinement Copy Share Image
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street — Florence King Bed 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
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
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. — Florence King Bars Copy Share Image
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very… — Florence King Been 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
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King Austen 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 Cures Copy Share Image
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere… — Florence King Gone 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 Bubbles Copy Share Image
If last words are to be audible and coherent, they need to be delivered before you have any tubes up your nose… — Florence King Last words Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief… — Florence King Even 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
