Florence King Quotes - Page 5

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

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.

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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.

Familiarity breeds democracry.