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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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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
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Alone
Literature
Real
Spinsterhood
Fastest
Travels
Double
Feminism

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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.
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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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