All Florence King Quotes
- I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer. Fool
- To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest… America
- I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… Acquaintance
- Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate? Hate
- 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 concept of heaven,… America
- The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now… According
- We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the… American
- Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. All
- Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Always Strain
- "Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens… Always Come
- A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… All
- Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. Composed
- Real feminism is spinsterhood. Feminism
- People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at… Age
- Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of… Able
- 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