“Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.”

—  Dorothy Parker

Source: Men, Women And Dogs

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

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