Florence King

Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. Quotes During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. "From Captain Marvel to Captain Valium", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989) 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. "Does Your Child Taste Salty?", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989) We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories [...] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu. "Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112 Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. The Florence King Reader (1995) The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. The Florence King Reader (1995) There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat. Lump It or Leave It (1990) 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. On her first day of kindergarten, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1990) External links The American Enterprise Magazine Florence King on National Review Online Magellan's Log: Florence King Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Columnists from the United States Category:People from Washington, D.C. Category:1936 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1930s