Quote

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.

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
Literature
Cures
Deserved
Wrong
Feminism
Scholars
Women
Feminist
Obscurity
Nothing
Third
Studying
Right
Thirds
Studies
Rivers
Scholar
Penchant
Rate
Literary
Neurotics
Study
Cure
Dragging

More quotes by Florence King

Image
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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
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
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.
Florence King
Image
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King
Image
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King
Image
Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
Florence King
Image
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Florence King
Image
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
Image
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Florence King
Image
Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
Florence King
Image
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
Florence King
Image
Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
Florence King
Image
Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
Florence King
Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
Image
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
Florence King
Image
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.
Florence King
Image
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