187 Quotes by Florence King

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    I don’t mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

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

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    Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don’t nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

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    Of all the old maid’s blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called “that crazy old maid” she can get away with anything.

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    There’s no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

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

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    I wasn’t used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn’t known that before; I thought I was just short.

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

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    There is more sexism in a year’s worth of movies than actually exists in a woman’s entire lifetime.

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