#DorothyParker da soll mir noch jemand sagen, Frida konnte nur #ABBA 😎
Frida - Threnody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF1kNSXWAf4

> Frida - Threnody

#DorothyParker da soll mir noch jemand sagen, Frida konnte nur #ABBA 😎
Frida - Threnody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4owGwjPmM

> Frida - Threnody

politically left, she helped to organise rescue missions for loyalist veterans & spanish children’s relief.
to her last, she let her conscience guide her. the NAACP & MLK jr were benefactors of the bon mot babe’s will when she died of a heart attack at the age of 73. her suggested epitaphs? ‘excuse my dust’ & ‘it’s on me’.
bonus factoid: she wrote the song, ‘i wished on the moon’, which was first recorded by billie holiday.
#dorothyParker #portrait #spanishCivilWar #billieHoliday #literature

hollywood soon wooed her with tidy sums for screenwriting (until she was blacklisted as a commie by the HUAC). she loathed it, but tinseltown kept her in tipple & she was ready with her dosh (in spite of her frequent need to self-medicate). in the years up to & during the second world war, dorothy wholeheartedly embraced the struggle for civil rights & served as chair of the joint anti-fascist refugee committee.
#art #illustration #dorothyParker #writer #poet #HUAC #communism #civilRights

“I hate writing, I love having written.” #dorothyparker

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Happy birthday #dorothyparker

#22agosto #mastoart #botd #literature

#NataOggi nel 1893 l'arguta scrittrice e poetessa americana #DorothyParker

The great Dorothy Parker died on this day in 1967. One of the most quotable of authors. My personal favourite...

"If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised!"

😂 😂 😂

#bookstodon #books #quotes #DorothyParker @bookstodon

#Diada #santjordi23 📚
Voldria compartir autores i les seves obres. Us ve de gust seguir la llista?

#MercèRodoreda El Carrer de les Camèlies i La mort i la primavera
#MarinaGarcés Ciutat Princesa
#NuriaSaraMirasBoronat Filòsofes de la contemporaneïtat
#MartaRojals Primavera, estiu, etcètera i L'altra
#IreneSolà Canto jo i la muntanya balla
#DorothyParker Narracions completes
#MartaPessarrodona França 1939
#SílviaFederici El patriarcat del salari
I sempre #CaterinaAlbert i la seva #Solitud

i actually prefer billie's 1935 recording of 'i wished on the moon', so here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7b1ts2fUg
#jukeboxFridayNight #billieHoliday #DorothyParker #music

‘i’m a race woman,’ said billie. her close friend, josh white, backed her up on that: ‘she had more thought for humanity& was more race-conscious than people knew.’
did you know that #dorothyParker wrote a song that billie recorded? yep, she did. it's 'i wished on the moon'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxiy_U6HaWM
#billieHoliday #JukeboxFridayNight #illustration #musique

Dorothy Parker gave good quote - and this little gem is one I hadn't seen before.

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

(womensart1 used the quote on Instagram, which is how I learned, very belatedly, of its existence.)

#DorothyParker
#Heterosexuality
#Normal
#Common
#Quotes

Well played #dorothyparker

“God keep me from chauvinism, but New York is beautiful. Oh, this is a lovely city you have here! I think that your skyline is astounding, and that your women are the most attractive in the world, but that there is a certain amount of exaggeration in the report that your men think of nothing but business, business, business, all the time. If it is true, then wherever did I get these bruises on my neck?”

#dorothyParker #nyc

When reviewing a very florid-sounding book:

“The sun becomes "that round orb of day" (as opposed, I expect, to those square orbs you see about so much lately).”

#DorothyParker

I’m reading a #DorothyParker collection that includes a bunch of her Constant Reader columns, and I promise not to flood the whole local timeline with quotes, but I have to share this one:

“Ava was young and slender and proud. And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.”

@RandallsBooks Lest we misquote: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/26/great-force/

Regardless, someone definitely had their work thrown further:

Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/1679106600?hl=en-US&tz=300&date=all&hl=en&q=%2Fm%2F02fk5,%2Fm%2F0h25&sni=3

Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Dorothy+Parker,Ayn+Rand&year_start=1957&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

#DorothyParker #AynRand

@RandallsBooks I have heard Dorothy Parker's words many times but never knew what book she was talking about.

Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!

#BookReviews #DorothyParker

PS: I just realized that the post I commented on doesn't have alt-text, but this one is sooo worth sharing, so here goes: A black-and-white photograph of Dorothy Parker with the text of her review of Atlas Shrugged. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” #DorothyParker
#money #capital #capitalism #SignatureBank #siliconvalleybank

MY AUNT’S #ABORTION, a #book of #poetry and #essays, is listed on Amazon as something frequently purchased along with a book of light #verse by Dorothy Parker (as in THE DOROTHY PARKER, or #DOROTHYPARKER) so my work is done here (but only if you look at the link right now. Or, purchase both books and keep the hits coming!).
https://www.amazon.com/Aunts-Abortion-Jane-Rosenberg-LaForge/dp/1609644174