“In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.” — Florence King Church bells Copy Share Image
“For a girl gone wrong, you can't beat the banks of the Wabash.” — Florence King Girl Copy Share Image
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat. — Florence King Democrat Copy Share Image
“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?” — Florence King Book Copy Share Image
In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. — Florence King Copy Share Image
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. — Florence King Feminism Copy Share Image
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like… — Florence King 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
We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal… — Florence King Copy Share Image
For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation… — Florence King Abortion Copy Share Image
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy… — Florence King Achievement Copy Share Image
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into… — Florence King Copy Share Image
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically… — Florence King Absolute monarchy Copy Share Image
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love… — Florence King America 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
The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag… — Florence King American woman Copy Share Image
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Metaphors Copy Share Image
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor. — Florence King Baseball Copy Share Image
