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.
- Florence King Quote

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
- Florence King Quote

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
- Florence King Quote

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
- Florence King Quote

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
- Florence King Quote

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.
- Florence King Quote

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
- Florence King Quote

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
- Florence King Quote