A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

King's first book publiFlorence Kingd under her own name was 1975's Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. In many of her writings King often refers to the comical contradictions between the material reality of her upbringing (lower middle class) and the snobbish behavior of her grandmother. She also wrote a historical romance novel Barbarian Princess under the pseudonym Laura Buchanan.

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King is a traditionalist conservative but not a "movement conservative" and Florence King objects to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right. Florence Virginia King (b.