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Cornelia Otis Skinner

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born

December 13, 1901 in Chicago, The United States

died

July 09, 1979

gender

female

genre

Travel, Literature & Fiction

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Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American author and actress. Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending the all-girls' Ethel Walker School, and Bryn Mawr College (1918-1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. She appeared in several plays before embarking on a tour of the United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of short character sketches she herself wrote. She wrote numerous short humorous pieces for publications like The New Yorker. These pieces were eventually compiled into a series of books, including Nuts in May, Dithers and Jitters, Excuse It Please!, and The Ape In Me, among others.
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Books by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Average rating: 4.08 · 1,065 ratings · 213 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough 4.09 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 1942 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Madame Sarah 3.62 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Elegant wits and grand horizontals 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1962	My rating:
	Nuts in May 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Excuse It, Please! 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1936	My rating:
	The Ape in Me by Cornelia Otis Skinner, alaJalov (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1959	My rating:
	Dithers and Jitters 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1938	My rating:
	Soap Behind the Ears 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1941	My rating:
	Life with Lindsay & Crouse 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976	My rating:
	Our Hearts Were Young and Gay [With Headphones] by Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough, Celeste Lawson (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.”
― Cornelia Otis Skinner

tags: feminism , virtue , women

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“Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ”
― Cornelia Otis Skinner

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“There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.”
― Cornelia Otis Skinner, Elegant wits and grand horizontals

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