The writer and famous quip-fount said she was “just a little Jewish girl trying to be cute.” Yes and more, Mrs. Parker.
This writer was the wittiest woman ever:
Anyone who messed with her got verbally sliced up like an apple. Some cutting samples:
"I didn't call her anything. 'Hey, you,' was about the best I could do."
Even as a child she was insulting people. Here, her stepmother, who according to biographer Marion Meade was a bit odd.
On the immaculate conception: "Spontaneous combustion."
Again, she was a child. Funniest kid at Blessed Sacrament Academy? Most likely.
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"From these foundations of the autumn wardrobe, one may learn that brevity is the soul of lingerie."
Written when she was a caption-writer for Vogue.
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