There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. — Florence King Families Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Democracy Copy Share Image
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat — Florence King Golf Copy Share Image
There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime. — Florence King Entire life Copy Share Image
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things. — Florence King Copy Share Image
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. — Florence King Copy Share Image
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous. — Florence King Education 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
“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
Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King Copy Share Image
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a… — Florence King 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
Feminists, I hasten to add, are not all bad. In fact, they are an ideal bellwether, an invaluable aid in helping me… — Florence King Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Accessibility Copy Share Image
The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by… — Florence King America 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
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called… — Florence King America 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 Copy Share Image
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Book Copy Share Image
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well. — Florence King Hate Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King America 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
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America. — Florence King Agoraphobia 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 Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Confinement 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
Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into… — Florence King Celebrity 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 Copy Share Image
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
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. — Florence King Beauty Copy Share Image
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people… — Florence King Aging Copy Share Image
