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The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

— Florence King The Florence King Reader (1995)

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

The Florence King Reader (1995)

Chinks in America's EGALITARIAN armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

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.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories...but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.

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