Rebecca Loos Quotes

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it's not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

'Sexy' is being independent, being confident and having fun.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Let me do me.

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese

I don't have a hard and fast rule about dignity. I'm concerned about being treated with respect, but if I make my own choices and kind of let 'er rip, I will.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

You should always stand up for yourself.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.

Can't nobody handle me.

I can't let anybody tell me what I'm going to be.

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.

Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.