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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Hard
Eighties
Good
Hug
Men
Seventies
Eighty
Feminist
Caught
Rock
Fathering
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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 just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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 and regrouped under one roof.
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