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Letter "F" » Florence King Quotes
«Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.»
Author: Florence King
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Keywords:
bag lady,
Bowery,
colorful,
denizen,
denizens,
hobo,
rail,
riding,
skid,
skidding,
skids,
skid row,
taken over,
The Bowery
«Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials»
Author: Florence King
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About:
Animals
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Keywords:
activist,
activists,
animal rights,
compromising,
credentials,
disillusion,
disillusioned,
feminists,
protecting,
radical,
The Wee,
wee
«I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.»
«Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental»
«Democracy: The Crude leading the Crud»
«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.»
Author: Florence King
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Keywords:
faith healing,
fundamentalism,
fundamentalist,
Fundamentalists,
Good Cheer,
hymn,
hymns,
intellectualism,
pink,
puerile,
rambunctious,
regression,
rose pink,
vanished
«Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.»
«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.»
«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.»