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One Quotes by Florence King
- Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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