“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker
At a time when women were supposed to be stay-at-home moms and the writers who got press tended to be men, Dorothy Parker hit the 1920s running — her mouth off as well as her pen. She was known as much for her biting wit as she was for her phenomenal writing.
She began at the New Yorker, where work days often included long boozy lunches with fellow stellar writers at New York’s fancy Algonquin Hotel.
In my early teens, I first read “The Portable Dorothy Parker.” Each of the short stories and poems included in it is a gem. I was hooked!
Wiki describes her as ‘poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.’ In addition, she wrote many enormously successful screenplays with her gay husband, Alan Campbell, who she married twice.
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This is a wonderful homage to an outstanding and brilliant woman. I haven’t thought of her in a very long time and am glad you reminded me of Dorothy Parker.
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You have created a truly lovely, creative blog!
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why what a kind thing to say 🙂
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The wit is evident in the caption packed with a certain power to get people salute her
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What a throw back! I studied her in UNI and just LOVED her! What a woman!! Im adding her to my list for WCW now!! Thank you for sharing this 😘 xx
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glad you enjoyed – for me, she never gets old – she’s one of the few authors I love to re-read
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“What fresh hell is this?” has always been one of my favourite quotations. I used to say it whenever the phone in my classroom rang. Luckily I always taught seniors who thought it appropriate.
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haha – or couldn’t hear you or the phone? hopefully they didn’t think you were referring to them 🙂
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