Florence King — American Writer born on January 05, 1936,

Florence Virginia King is an American novelist, essayist and columnist... (wikipedia)

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.