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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 I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

— Florence King Lump It or Leave It (1990)

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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.

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.

The Florence King Reader (1995)

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.

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