#florence king

[melauhh]

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

📍 New York City

🎞️ Fuji STX-2, Fujifilm Superia XTRA 400

[nobeerreviews]

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

-- Florence King

(Aarau, Switzerland)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home." --  Florence King.

One day after her  80th birthday, Miss King has gone to that great misanthropes' party (probably a Southern barbecue ) in the sky.

She wrote the “Misanthrope’s Corner” for National Review for many years and authored several books -- two of the most famous and hilarious, especially if y'all  are Southerners like moi and recognized exactly whom she was describing , skewering and explaining -- were Southern Ladies and Gentlemen and Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. Here are a few of Miss King's observations, confessions and zingers:

"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners."

(On her grandmother raising her to have good manners, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady): 

"Whether she succeeded in making a lady out of me is for you to decide, but I will say one thing in my own favor before we begin. No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."

"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.” 

“In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.”

 “Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”

  http://www.nytimes.com/.../florence-king-writer-who...

[h/t Sherry Baker]

[cultofpoppy-tm]

Poppy for Noctis XX Spring/Summer Issue - Poppy Cover. Dress by Florence King, Photo by Maria Lax, 3D Graphics by Nicholas Keays.

[clove-pinks]

I think it was Florence King who said, "Men in women's dreams aren't naked, they're in uniform." But now I can't find the quote.

[annoyingvoidzombie]

Happy 3rd Birthday Florence 😍

[manisthehead-womanistheheart]

We went from a nation that believed a virtuous woman's price is far above rubies to one that believes a virtuous woman is as sounding brass. Meanwhile, the New Woman went from prize to prey. Without the social conventions of modesty, her prerogative to say no was overridden by men's prerogative to expect sex.

Florence King, In All, Modesty (1999)

[accolalove]

@craccola: Regram @josekingseco PreNap Time in  the grass