The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart.
Florence KingDuring 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.
Florence KingGod may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.
Florence KingKeep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.
Florence KingIn social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence KingInsecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
Florence KingAs the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the clichรฉ that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.
Florence King