The Collected Dorothy Parker | 
Hi @TheBookHippie - this will be my second book from your fabulous #auldlangspine2025 list. I couldn‘t get hold of the exact Dorothy Parker that you had read - but I‘ve not read anything by her so I opted for this collected works. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@SailorMoon #thursdayquotes
While not necessarily from a book (although Parker was a gifted essayist, poet and playwright), my favorite quote EVER is:
You can lead a horticulture but you can‘t make her think. - Dorothy Parker
‘A Certain Lady‘ by Dorothy Parker.
#poetrymatters #lady
pickI love Dorothy Parker. I love how through incredibly entertaining stories she dissects all the way women cut each other and themselves down through the manipulations of the patriarchy. I love how vivid her characters are, how well structured her plots are, and unique each voice is. 5 out of 5 on GR. Brilliant voice acting.
Had to find something new to fall asleep to. This is perfect :)
My new aesthetic is the TLS immortalising Dorothy Parker fucking up F Scott Fitzgerald
After finishing this week session for my #rebeccabuddyread @Bambolina_81 I looked for some short entertainment and I will try a shortened edition of the tagged book. So many people (esp. Littens) told my great things about Dorothy Parker. 😍 Let's have a look.
Happy #bookishbirthday to Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)! She's known for her short fiction, poems, criticism, satire & screenplays. She was also a civil rights & anti-fascism activist. She was on the FBI's communist watchlist for founding the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936. She chaired the Joint Anti-Fascist Rescue Committee. She bequeathed her entire estate to MLK & ultimately the NAACP upon her death. She would've been pro-Nazi punching. 👊🏼
Inventory:
"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."
pickDidn't expect the social satire to be so dark, but that's how I prefer it anyway. Loved the brilliant one-sided conversations.The four actresses who narrate this audiobook are all excellent, but my favourite is Shirley Booth, who performs the final four short pieces as if on a stage. (Note the link is to a different edition; I listened to the one in the picture.)
"Oh good lord, what's the matter with women anyway?"
"Please don't call me 'women'," she said.
"I'm sorry, darling," he said. "I didn't mean to use bad words."
