forethought

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever, she went, including here, it was against her better judgement."
Dorothy Parker, New Yorker, 1929.

I love love love Dorothy Parker. Jennifer Jason Leigh was in a great film portraying her called "Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle." I am a big fan of writers, critics and essayists from the 1920's- 1940's (especially EB White, Hemingway, HL Mencken, and Fitzgerald). Ms. Parker was was unique in my mind, because she is not always put in the same category as "modern women writers". No, she was a little different - and that goes a long way when you're a woman. Writers of history (usually men) tend to put all modern women writers in a "feminist" category or a "African American fiction writer" category when it comes to literature or essays before 1950's. This isn't ( I believe) out of some masculine drive to subjugate women writers, but merely was done at colleges to easier teach student's the emerging "modern" groups of writers that had the tools of pop media to get their word out (ie typewriters were cheaper and publishing houses were a dime a dozen in NYC after the industrial revolution.)

If you ever want to be mildly amused or laugh out loud..read up on Ms. Parker. Her words bite at times, but she's got truth and humour on her side. Great personal hero. A gem of an American writer.