Anita Loos Girl Quotations

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.

So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

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.

So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.