“Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always...” — Florence King Quote

“Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians.”

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

“He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.”

“Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.”