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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

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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
Feminism
Nature
Spinsterhood

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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.
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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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Very is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of I love you very much or the heart-slamming intensity of I love you?
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I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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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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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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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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