List of Florence King Quotes

Animal Rights Activists Gives Disillusioned Feminists An Excuse To Go Back To Being Women Protecting Wee Creatures Without Compromising Their Radical Credentials

The Proliferation Of Support Groups Suggests To Me That Too Many Americans Are Growing Up In Homes That Do Not Contain A Grandmoth.

Familiarity Doesn't Breed Contempt, It Is Contempt.

Learn To Spot And Avoid "writer Groupies." The Writer's Self-sufficiency And Our Love For Our Work Tend To Attract Insecure People Who Never Can Get Enough Love. They Grow Jealous Of Our Work And Come To Regard It As A Rival. These People Can Destroy You, So Kick Them Out Of Your Life Or Don't Admit Them In The First Place.

America Is The Only Country In The World Where You Can Suffer Culture Shock Without Leaving Home.

Familiarity Breeds Democracry.

Self-help Books Are Making Life Downright Unsafe. Women Desperate To Catch A Man Practice All The Ploys Recommended By These Authors. Bump Into Him, Trip Over Him, Knock Him Down, Spill Something On Him, Scald Him, But Meet Him.

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.

In Mississippi The Important Thing Is Hooch, Not Bar Equipment.

Episcopalians Have Always Preferred The Flying Buttress To The Pillar Of The Church.

We Worship Education But Hate Learning.

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.