Florence King
Florence King
Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
football character opposites
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
flying church pillars
Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.
important bars equipment
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.
real feminism spinsterhood
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
boys bunnies hierarchy
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.
judging judgmental judged
Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
life book men
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.
animal rights giving
Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials
hate people i-hate-people
Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
mean simple people
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.
contempt familiarity
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
team play resistance
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.
real health long-ago
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.
democracy leafs figs
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.