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Anita Loos

Anita Loos

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Birthday April 26, 1889

Birthplace Sisson, California, United States

Death August 18, 1981

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Autobiographer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Spouse John Emerson

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The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

— Anita Loos, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

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The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

— Anita Loos, The Writer's Almanac

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It’s also important to realize that it’s okay to be the first. If you constantly look for role models who look like you, then there won’t be any firsts.

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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

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I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how ‘bossy’ can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

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I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'

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...one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence: the female human being.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)

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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

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The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

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Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength. — G.D Anderson

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The support needs to come not just from women, but from men as well, because it’s gonna take all of us to correct our past mistakes, and for people to reach their dreams without it feeling like it’s gonna take a whole 10-plus years for us to make some real progress.

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The myth of female empowerment has always been on a collision course with the reality.

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I have found a home
in a woman
strong,
fierce,
and loved.

And she smiles back at me
in the bathroom mirror.

Proud
and unafraid.

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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There is nothing more dangerous than a girl who is aware of the flames inside her, and all the damage she can do.

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After you left,
She took her lessons
From the wind.
You knew her as an ocean breeze.
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Information is power. Or it should be. We are living in a new era. The gender pay gap is shrinking, although admittedly we have a long way to go. And well, I learned this first hand.

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For these women, the fight to merely survive is a declaration of equality that could be called “feminist”. But here’s the thing: in my experience, right or wrong, they don’t give a shit what you call it.

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