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
Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America. — Florence King Agoraphobia 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
Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a… — Florence King Bloody 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
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes… — Florence King Bounds Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Ancient 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
I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious… — Florence King Done Copy Share Image
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people… — Florence King Aging 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown"… — Florence King Abortion Copy Share Image
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well. — Florence King Hate Copy Share Image
There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. — Florence King Glue Copy Share Image
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of… — Florence King Deck 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 Depression Copy Share Image
Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration… — Florence King Admiration 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 America Copy Share Image
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Devoted Copy Share Image
Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy… — Florence King Achievement Copy Share Image
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. — Florence King Found Copy Share Image
