A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. — Florence King Being a grandmother Copy Share Image
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Devoted Copy Share Image
To me, the thing that has always ruined Jane Fonda is her voice. — Florence King Actress Copy Share Image
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. — Florence King Coming Copy Share Image
Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America. — Florence King Agoraphobia Copy Share Image
God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of… — Florence King Common Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. — Florence King Cigarette Copy Share Image
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good… — Florence King Caught 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
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
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden… — Florence King Burden 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
They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American… — Florence King Accused Copy Share Image
The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into… — Florence King Celebrity Copy Share Image
I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are… — Florence King Believe Copy Share Image
The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that… — Florence King Feminism Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Accessibility Copy Share Image
“To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death,… — Florence King Death Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King America 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
There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around,… — Florence King Celibacy Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia… — Florence King Alleys 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
“Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.” — Florence King Fence 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 Bingo 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
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
“In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.” — Florence King Church bells Copy Share Image
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
