Thank God I’m over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words “one size fits all,” and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea’s Retreat, not Victoria’s Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren’t fussy.
ATTRIBUTION:
Florence King (b. 1936), U.S. humorist, essayist, social critic. The Florence King Reader, New York, St. Martin’s Press (1995).
column,”Decline and Fall of the Hussy,” National Review (Feb. 17, 1992).
