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
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 American 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
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
“Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.” — Florence King Deus Ex 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
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. — Florence King Family 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
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 Children 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
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump… — Florence King Book 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
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to… — Florence King America 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
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II… — Florence King Movies Copy Share Image
Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats.… — Florence King Childhood Copy Share Image
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate… — Florence King Alchemy 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
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
I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon. — Florence King Believe Copy Share Image
Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that… — Florence King Audience Copy Share Image
