Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King Able 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
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King Achieve Copy Share Image
Optimists don't mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel. — Florence King Because 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 Actor 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.… — Florence King America 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
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
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between… — Florence King American life 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 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
Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow… — Florence King Dog Copy Share Image
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others… — Florence King Animal Copy Share Image
The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms. — Florence King Brooms Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials — Florence King Activist 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 America 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
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
My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of… — Florence King Community 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
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
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as… — Florence King Age Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Book 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
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Admirable 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
