Quotes about Dorothy Parker

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Everything I've ever said will be credited to Dorothy Parker.

George S. Kaufman

An analogous process I shall call Churchillian Drift... Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are, as if by osmosis, credited to Churchill. All humorous remarks obviously made by a female originated, of course, with Dorothy Parker. All quotations in translation, on the other hand, should be attributed to Goethe (with 'I think' obligatory).

Observing herself in a mirror after a party given by Dorothy Parker:

The less I behave like Whistler's Mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Tallulah Bankhead

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.