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Dorothy Parker
The best way...
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the...
I only want...
I only want enough to keep the body and soul apart.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
It's like meeting...
It's like meeting God without dying.
Source: Of Orson Welles.
-- Dorothy Parker,...
I shall stay...
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
Source: In
Money cannot buy...
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Source:...
Most good women...
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
Women and elephants...
Women and elephants never forget.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...
There was never...
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...
If all the...
If all the girls attending it were laid end to end - I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I know that...
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield,...
Seventy-two suburbs in...
Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...
She ran the...
She ran the whole gamut of her emotions from A to B.
Source: Of Katharine Hepburn...
And there was...
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...
Somebody was using...
Somebody was using the pencil.
Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...
There must be...
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...
How could they...
How could they tell?
Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...
There must be...
There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in...
As artists they're...
As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...
The doctors were...
The doctors were very brave about it.
Source: Said after she had been seriously...
This is on...
This is on me.
Source: Suggested epitaph for her own tombstone; in You Might As...