Florence King
Florence Virginia King was an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
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Background
- Born in
- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- American University
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Trending topics shown first"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 h…"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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…"
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1936
Born
Birth2016
Died
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