Below are links to two great books about the witty, Dorothy Parker, mistress of the One Liner, and master of the short story. Among many other women writers of her generation, she was underappreciated and underpaid, common for women writers of the times and today.
1.) The Portable Dorothy Parker, 2006.
2.) Dorothy Parker: Stories, 1992.
“I like to have a martini, two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.”
~Dorothy Parker
“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker and I appreciate a good audience.”
~Dorothy Parker
MEN
They hail you as their morning star
Because you are the way you are.
If you return the sentiment,
They'll try to make you different;
And once they have you, safe and sound,
They want to change you all around.
Your moods and ways they put a curse on;
They'd make of you another person.
They cannot let you go your gait;
They influence and educate.
They'd alter all that they admired.
They make me sick, they make me tired.
~Dorothy Parker
~Theresa Griffin Kennedy
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