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I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Anita Loos

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
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Mount Shasta
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One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
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Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
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Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
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Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
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In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
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I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
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I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
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I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
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Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
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