Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

22-Aug-1893


United States


Poet

Influenced by Catholicism for years, Dorothy Day converted in 1927. In 1933, she founded The Work Worker, a highly successful Catholic theologian and abolished the Catholic Worker Movement, which resolved social justice issues. The day also helped establish special homes to help those in need. Suku was furious at her time, working for social causes such as pacifism and the demise of women.

QUOTES BY Dorothy Parker


"Women and elephants never forget."

"The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt."

"Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are."

"[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?"

"Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you."

"Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour."

"I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them."

"Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul."

"What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."

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