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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

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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
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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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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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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We worship education but hate learning.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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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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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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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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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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