All Florence King Quotes
- American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. American
- The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and… American
- In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. Bee
- There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always… Always Got
- Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might… Animal
- A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am… Age
- Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take… Alchemy
- In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form… Advancing
- Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody. Anybody
- Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of… Able
- Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. America
- Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can… All
- Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. American
- Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time. Been
- To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to… Achieve
- I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. Bingo
- Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat Golf
- Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to thewords one size fits… All
- Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women… Bag