“And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.”

—  Dorothy Parker

Regarding a character in Elinor Glyn's novel It; in her review, "Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It,' with Illustrations" in The New Yorker (26 November 1927)

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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