DorothyParker//Interior

Her mind lives in a quiet room,
a narrow room, and tall,
with pretty lamps to quench the gloom
and mottoes on the wall.

There all the things are waxen neat
and set in decorous lines;
and there are posies, round and sweet,
and little straightened vines.

Her mind lives tidily, apart
from cold and noise and pain,
and bolts the door against her heart,
out wailing in the rain.

DorothyParker-WhatFreshHellisThis?

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table.
after four, I'm under the host."

"tell him I was too fucking busy--or vice versa"

"If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn."

"If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you."