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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
Eighty
Feminist
Caught
Rock
Fathering
Rocks
Hugs
Hard
Eighties
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Hug
Men
Seventies

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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 all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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When women talk about privacy they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about a room of one'sown refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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