Sorry, eNotes, but any list of ball-busting women writers without Dorothy Parker, who had the glorious effrontery to tell Norman Mailer, “So you’re the young man who can’t spell ‘fuck,'” is woefully inadequate.
Sorry, eNotes, but any list of ball-busting women writers without Dorothy Parker, who had the glorious effrontery to tell Norman Mailer, “So you’re the young man who can’t spell ‘fuck,'” is woefully inadequate.
I’ve seen that quote credited to different people, but I think it was Talullah Bankhead who said it, at least according to Mailer: http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1297/plimpton/excerpt.html
I love Parker, but still hold to my guns that in a chronological showdown, Stein was more influential. That’s what’s glorious and sucks about top tens, yes?