Famous Quotes / Florence E. King
18 Quotations by Florence E. King
- 1. American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa ...
- 2. Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi ...
- 3. Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th ...
- 4. Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F ...
- 5. Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
- 6. During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie ...
- 7. In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p ...
- 8. Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit ...
- 9. People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right ...
- 10. Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the pl ...
- 11. Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: p ...
- 12. The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t ...
- 13. The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, ...
- 14. The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w ...
- 15. Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced ...
- 16. Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W ...
- 17. True giving knows no season.
- 18. We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy ...