The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
“In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.” — Florence King Sunday 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
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
“Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?” — Florence King Business Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. — Florence King Known 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Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the… — Florence King Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
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 Assumption Copy Share Image
“If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup,… — Florence King Feminism 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
The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses. — Florence King Enjoy Copy Share Image
Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church. — Florence King Church 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
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat — Florence King Golf Copy Share Image
“Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter… — Florence King Books 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
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It… — Florence King Believe Copy Share Image
“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?” — Florence King Book Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Action 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
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
