Posts Tagged ‘Dorothy Parker’

Just some fun quotes

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

When I’m writing a book, I often like to search for quotes to include in the foreword and sometimes between chapter breaks. I inevitably come across some that I just love, but could never quite work into a humour book about parenting. So I’ll just share them here:

“I’ve never been a millionaire, but I know I’d just be darling at it.”
Dorothy Parker

“Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”
Oscar Wilde

“I can win an argument, on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of respect, they don’t even invite me.”
Dave Barry

Without exception, I wish ALL of these had come out of my mouth. Damn. Here’s one of my own that I have been using lately however…

“I’d rather have wine in a box than whine about Botox.”

Yeah…I’m working on it, okay?

Brevity is the soul of lingerie

Friday, July 4th, 2008

So says Dorothy Parker, my favourite writer, poet, and all round cynic.

I often like to end the week reading one of her short stories and marvel in the way that her works are just as relevant today as they were when they were written in the 20′s and 30′s. Most of her work deals with her disappointments (with men, her work, and life in general) but I really wish she’d had children…I think mine will need therapy one day. Just imagine.

I generally don’t like the word “feminist” (mostly because there is no male equivalent so we’re really not that much further ahead if we have to use it), but if ever there were one, she’s it baby.

One of the coolest things I’ve ever done is hang out in the Algonquin Hotel, where she and her Vanity Fair contemporaries made up the now infamous “Vicious Circle”. If you get to NYC stop in for at least one cocktail. If you haven’t seen the movie of this part of her life, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, I suggest you do.

This basically sums it up for Dorothy:

“Ducking for apples. Change one word and it’s the story of my life.”

Right on sister.