Dorothy Parker

[Gothic Sponge]

[redqueen]

1. Finally

one of these pic posts that has a chance of actually resulting in an interesting thread.

[Fiona]

2. You can lead

a horticulture but you can't make her think.

[breadbox]

8. of course the best thing about this quote

is that it is her response to "please use the word
'horticulture' in a sentence....

[Phillycat]

3. What a great picture!

Parker was so damn cool. She's one of my role models!

Here are two of her great quotes:

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common"

"I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."

[GliderGuider]

4. I love a martini with dinner,

One or two at the most.
Three, I'm under the table,
Four, I'm under the host.

(Edit for typo. *sigh*)

[Chandler Stork]

5. One more drink and I'll wind up under the host.

[LisaM]

6. She ran the gamut of emotions

from A to B.

[Richardo]

7. "If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end-to-end...

...I wouldn't be the least bit surprised." :D

One of my top 5 favorite writers

[donheld]

9. Fess Parker

[WMliberal]

10. This is not a book that should be tossed aside lightly

It should be heaved with great force.

If only HS English teachers could have such leverage...

[Richardo]

11. "House Beautiful" is a play lousy."

:D

[roguevalley]

12. when a snooty woman paused before a door while entering

the room for dinner, she stupidly said to Dorothy, "Age before beauty."

Dorothy smiled and went on, saying, "Pearls before swine."

I love her. The female Oscar Wilde.

[Gothic Sponge]

13. Ha!

I would have loved to sat with her at the Algonquin round table.

[Richardo]

14. I think that is the best picture I've ever seen of her...

...great find!

[Mallifica]

15. "men don't make passes,

at girls who wear glasses"

That may not be exact, but still a great quote. I was lucky enough to have a friend recommend her to me for a highschool paper, but I haven't read any of her writing since then. I would probably get much more out of it now (about ten years later).

[Left Is Write]

16. Pretty close.

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."

That quote had me feeling self-conscious about wearing my glasses for years while I was in school.

[Mallifica]

18. oh, that's a shame

I don't think that the intention was to ever make women feel self-conscious :)

[Left Is Write]

19. I'm sure it wasn't.

But to a ninth-grader with no context, well - you know.

[twenty2strings]

17. Like Shirley Maclaine...

She was accepted into an all male club because she wasn't willing to be excluded from the fun. And she sure could drink.:toast:

[Richardo]

20. I've never seen those two linked in any way before...

...what 'all-male' club was Shirley Maclaine part of?

[Patsy Stone]

22. The Rat Pack, silly! n/t

[Richardo]

23. I guess...

...but Rat Pack <> Algonquin Round Table IMO; and
Shirley Maclaine <> Dorothy Parker. :)

[Patsy Stone]

24. True

Both, however, were "boys' clubs," and you really had to be able drink to get in! :)

I wouldn't have used the analogy either, but I got the reference, and I was just sharin'.

[Patsy Stone]

21. um...ROCKED?!?!

'Cause she did! :)

[Rowdyboy]

25. "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity..."

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, was against her better judgement".

and, my favorite, "Take care of the luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves".

[NightTrain]

26. "If I abstain from fun and such,

I'll probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn."

And a big tip of the hat to Jennifer Jason Leigh, who portrayed her so magnificnetly in MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1994)!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

27. Ah, yes. The quickest wit of the 20th Century possibly....

a great quote when Thurber dared her to use a sentance with horticulture...

DP "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her learn anything."

Inspiring mind.