Quote of the Day (Dorothy Parker, Sizing Up--or Down--a ‘Writer of Power’)

“He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically, and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing.”— Dorothy Parker, reviewing the novel An American Girl by Tiffany Thayer, in The New Yorker, March 18, 1933, reprinted in The Portable Dorothy Parker