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Florence King Quote: “If whisky or salt won’t cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.”

51. “If whisky or salt won’t cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America’s commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.”

52. “In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America’s commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.”

53. “God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Let’s bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It’s time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.”

56. “Let’s bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It’s time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.”

57. “The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”

58. “Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth...”

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

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “I’m for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.”

61. “I’m for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

62. “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

Florence King Quote: “The Southern man has a certain swagger about him that every woman craves in a man, whether she is willing to admit it or not. in this depressingly utilitarian age, when young lovers remove identical faded jeans and pea jackets before getting into bed together, the thought of a beau sabreur lover is not unappealing, Neither the overbearing male chauvinist nor the supportive gelding are capalbe of stirring the female blood, but a dashing cavalier is.”

63. “The Southern man has a certain swagger about him that every woman craves in a man, whether she is willing to admit it or not. in this depressingly utilitarian age, when young lovers remove identical faded jeans and pea jackets before getting into bed together, the thought of a beau sabreur lover is not unappealing, Neither the overbearing male chauvinist nor the supportive gelding are capalbe of stirring the female blood, but a dashing cavalier is.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”

64. “Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

65. “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.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?”

66. “Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Real feminism is spinsterhood.”

67. “Real feminism is spinsterhood.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.”

69. “In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “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.”

70. “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

Florence King Quote: “Updike’s style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.”

71. “Updike’s style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “My consultants recommended several nihilists and existentialists but I rejected them all. A black turtleneck sweater does not a misanthrope make. Nihilists and existentialists tend to be bohemians, who invariably run in packs; despite their alienated stance, they have always struck me as a sociable lot who surround themselves with people because they are forever saying “Nothing matters,” and they need someone to say it to.”

72. “My consultants recommended several nihilists and existentialists but I rejected them all. A black turtleneck sweater does not a misanthrope make. Nihilists and existentialists tend to be bohemians, who invariably run in packs; despite their alienated stance, they have always struck me as a sociable lot who surround themselves with people because they are forever saying “Nothing matters,” and they need someone to say it to.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.”

73. “Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials.”

74. “Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.”

75. “The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “I’ve always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.”

76. “I’ve always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except “Do you have enough room in the toes?”

77. “Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except “Do you have enough room in the toes?”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.”

78. “Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “Familiarity breeds democracry.”

79. “Familiarity breeds democracry.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.”

80. “There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “There’s no such thing as a ‘writing talent.’ Anyone can be taught to write a good sentence. What writers are born with is a ‘third ear,’ not for words but for human nature. And like people with an ear for music who can play the piano without lessons or notes, we can’t explain how we know what we know – we just know.”

81. “There’s no such thing as a ‘writing talent.’ Anyone can be taught to write a good sentence. What writers are born with is a ‘third ear,’ not for words but for human nature. And like people with an ear for music who can play the piano without lessons or notes, we can’t explain how we know what we know – we just know.”

— Florence King

Florence King Quote: “I saw how dating chipped away tiny pieces of a woman’s self-confidence; piece by piece, date by date, she was diminished by some form of unnatural behavior forced on her by social usage.”

82. “I saw how dating chipped away tiny pieces of a woman’s self-confidence; piece by piece, date by date, she was diminished by some form of unnatural behavior forced on her by social usage.”

— Florence King

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