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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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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.
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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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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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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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