13 Quotes & Sayings By Florence King

Florence King was born in Fort Scott, Kansas. As a child she started writing stories and poems, which were published in a local newspaper. She attended Fort Scott High School and studied at Fort Scott State Normal School. In 1916 she married William King and they soon after settled in Springfield, Missouri Read more

She began to write again, publishing her first book of poetry "The Unloved" in 1922. In 1925 she became a nationally known poet when her collection "Adventure" was published. In 1927 she published her first novel "The Long Road Home", followed by "The White Wings" and "The Amethyst Ring".

With the success of these books, King was able to leave her responsibilities as a housewife and raise two children while she continued to write. Her next book, "I'll Tell You in Time," was published in 1928 and became the first book of the Heart Trilogy series. Her series focused on the story of an abused woman who finds strength through love and family.

During the 1930's Florence King also wrote several other books including "A Little Bit of Heaven," "Rich Woman," and "The Sheep Look Up." In addition to writing novels, she also wrote several non-fiction books including "Self Help", "How to Win Friends and Influence People", and another trilogy."Self Help: The Best Book Ever Written About Motivation" is viewed as one of the greatest self help books ever written by psychologists and motivational speakers around the world.

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A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity. Florence King
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought...
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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. Florence King
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In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. Florence King
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Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes? Florence King
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If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup, but we were, without knowing it, feminists ourselves, bound together by the freemasonry that exists among intelligent women who know they are intelligent. It is the only kind of female bonding that works, which is why most men do not like intelligent women. They don't mind one female brain if they can enjoy it privately; it's the idea of two or more on the loose that upsets them. The girls in the college-bound group might not have been friends in every case-- Sharon Cohen and I gave each other willies--but our instincts told us that we had the same enemies. . Florence King
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street Florence King
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. Florence King
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Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the note card that says, "Margaret has to die soon." We own the kind of books that spies use to construct codes, like The Letters of Mme. de Sevigne, and we are the only people in the world who write oxymoron in the margin of the Bible. Manuscripts in the fridge in case of fire, Strunk's Elements in the bathroom, the Laramie City Directory explained away with "It might come in handy, " all strike fear in the GS-7 heart. Nobody really wants to sleep with a writer, but Silly Service workers won't even talk to us. Florence King
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In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. Florence King
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[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic, ' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one. Florence King
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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
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. Florence King