Quote

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Florence King

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Give
Spinsterhood
Women
Spinsters
Giving
Maids
Real
Admitted
Good
Feminism
Time
Name
Names
America

More quotes by Florence King

Image
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
Florence King
Image
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
Florence King
Image
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.
Florence King
Image
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Florence King
Image
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.
Florence King
Image
Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
Florence King
Image
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
Florence King
Image
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
Florence King
Image
Familiarity breeds democracry.
Florence King
Image
Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
Florence King
Image
Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
Florence King
Image
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.
Florence King
Image
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
Florence King
Image
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King
Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
Image
It takes only one child to raze a village.
Florence King
Image
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.
Florence King
Image
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.
Florence King
Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
Florence King
Image
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King