Quotes by Florence King

Florence King

“Very” is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of “I love you very much” or the heart-slamming intensity of “I love you”?

Heart

Love You

Writing

A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don’t end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it’s better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can’t say it interestingly, don’t say it at all.

Mother

Topics

Writing

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

Mind

Personality

Waiting

Affirmative action was designed originally for “women and other minorities” but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

Mean

Race

Sex

America is not a democracy, it’s an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Children

Kids

Kings

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

America

Country

Home

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Couple

Gone

Law

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

Creativity

Ideas

Innovation

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer… its anti-intellectualism… its puerile hymns… and its faith-healing… are made to order for King Kid America.

Cheer

Christian

Kings

Chinks in America’s egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

America

Egalitarianism

Women

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Atheism

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Book

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Breathing

Cancer

Cheer

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Christian

Church

Cigarette Smoke

Cities

Community

Contempt

Country

Couple

Creativity

Crowns

Cutting

Dating

Defective

Democracy

Depression

Devoted

Differences

Doe

Dog

Double Standard

Dream

Egalitarianism

Ephemeral

Expression

Familiarity

Family

Feminism

Feminist

Fighting

Figs

Figures

Flying

Fool

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Genealogy

Gone

Government

Grandma

Growing Up

Gun

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Quotes by Florence King

Florence King

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

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

Chinks in America’s egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

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