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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
Spinsterhood
Feminism
Nature

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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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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 common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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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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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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