“ 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 hu… Florence King
“ I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. Florence King
“ [John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could ha… Florence King
“ People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. Florence King
“ Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. Florence King
“ He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. Florence King
“ Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended… Florence King
“ Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. Florence King
“ 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. Florence King
“ If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup, but we were, without knowing it, feminists ourselves, bound together by the freemasonry that… Florence King
“ Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the… Florence King
“ Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes? Florence King