Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Florence King (American Essayist)

Florence Virginia King (1936–2016) was an American novelist, essayist, and columnist. Her writing ripped apart righteous lores about Southern women, feminism, and the false-front pleasantness of contemporary life.

Born in Washington, D.C., King received a bachelor’s degree in history from American University in 1957. She worked at a high school in Suitland, Maryland, and as a file clerk before reporting for the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1964–67. She moved to Seattle in 1972.

King’s first work was Southern Ladies and Gentlemen (1975,) a humorous manual about life in the South. She was a regular contributor to National Review until her death, writing the columns “The Misanthrope’s Corner” 1991–2002 and “The Bent Pin” 2006–12.

Celebrated as an acerbic conservative writer, King wrote critical books and essays about feminism and life in the South. Her best-known book, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1985,) was an embellished biography of her coming of age in Washington, D.C. Her other notable works include Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989) and With Charity toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy (1992.)

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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
Florence King
Topics: Wisdom, Money

“Very” is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of “I love you very much” or the heart-slamming intensity of “I love you”?”
Florence King

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 deja vu.
Florence King

There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.
Florence King

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.
Florence King

[To be a wit] you must have a dismal outlook on life and human nature. You have to be a misanthrope, a loner, an introvert — all the things Americans don’t want to be and don’t think people should be. Wit goes for the jugular; humor goes for the jocular.
Florence King

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.
Florence King

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