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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
Florence King
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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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It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
Florence King
Learn to spot and avoid writer groupies. The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.
Florence King
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Florence King
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
Florence King
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
Florence King
There is nothing wrong with women's studies that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
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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.
Florence King
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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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.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
Florence King
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
Florence King
Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
Florence King
We worship education but hate learning.
Florence King
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
Florence King