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It takes only one child to raze a village.

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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
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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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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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.
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We worship education but hate learning.
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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.
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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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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.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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