Florence King Quotes - Page 5

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• Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

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  Democracy, Leafs, Figs

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan

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

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  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• 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.

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  Women, Mean, Rights

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• 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.

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  Boys, Names, Males

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

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  Mind, Literature, World

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

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  Important, Bars, Equipment

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.215, Macmillan

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

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  Flying, Church, Pillars

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• There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

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  Growing Up, Book, Reading

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

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  Football, Character, Opposites

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

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• The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

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  Marriage, Sleep, Breathing

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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  Real, Feminism, Gender

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Life, Book, Men

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.73, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Jealous, Insecure, Self

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• Familiarity breeds democracry.

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  Familiarity

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