Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King America 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
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
Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America. — Florence King Agoraphobia 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
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Devoted Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Democracy Copy Share Image
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. — Florence King Families Copy Share Image
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady… — Florence King Book 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
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
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will… — Florence King Dating Copy Share Image
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down… — Florence King Calming Copy Share Image
“The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism.… — Florence King Age of reason 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 Betrayal Copy Share Image
Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the… — Florence King Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
“His Grace called Virginius in and said: "Do you think a priest of the Anglican Communion should be a divorced man with… — Florence King Humor Copy Share Image
Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to thewords… — Florence King Hot flashes 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 Books Copy Share Image
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same… — Florence King Conception Copy Share Image
"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because… — Florence King English language Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Enough 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
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's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. — Florence King Glue Copy Share Image
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor. — Florence King Baseball Copy Share Image
To me, the thing that has always ruined Jane Fonda is her voice. — Florence King Actress Copy Share Image
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things. — Florence King Cure 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
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat — Florence King Golf Copy Share Image
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady. — Florence King Best place Copy Share Image
Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old… — Florence King Being single Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Atheism Copy Share Image
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like… — Florence King Aim 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
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
I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I… — Florence King Appeared Copy Share Image
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Womendesperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into… — Florence King Books Copy Share Image
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
