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Florence King
7 quotes
“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 (1936–2016) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Captain Marvel to Captain Valium", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989)
“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.”
Florence King (1936–2016) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Does Your Child Taste Salty?", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989)
“We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories [...] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.”
Florence King (1936–2016) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
“Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”
Florence King (1936–2016) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Florence King Reader (1995)
“The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.”
Florence King (1936–2016) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Florence King Reader (1995)
“There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.”
Florence King (1936–2016) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lump It or Leave It (1990)
“I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.”
Florence King (1936–2016) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her first day of kindergarten, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1990)