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
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
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
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
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. — Florence King Being a grandmother 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
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative… — Florence King Cardinal rules Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Apartment 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
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
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
You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor,… — Florence King Easy Copy Share Image
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King Bigs 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
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
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
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
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
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
To me, the thing that has always ruined Jane Fonda is her voice. — Florence King Always 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
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
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
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
