Jodi Compton

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
― Dorothy Parker

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress