Citations:girlboss

English citations of girlboss

Noun: "(neologism) a female entrepreneur who succeeds in the male-dominated business world; by extension, any strong-willed, independent, enterprising woman"

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• 2014, review of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2014, page 41:

  The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.

• 2020, Catherine Auman, Guide to Spiritual L.A.: The Irreverent, the Awake, and the True, unnumbered page:

  Her life and leadership are inspiring, and she is called a Native Joan of Arc, a resistance fighter, a spiritual queen, a baddass, a girlboss.

• 2021, Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity, page xv:

  I am a girlboss. I am diverse and I am included. I am an antiracist, radically honest, culturally relevant, intersectional womanist dyke.

• 2021, Leigh Stein, quoted in Arwa Mahdawi, Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power, unnumbered page:

  The girlboss didn't change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.

• 2021, Michelle Quach, Not Here To Be Liked, unnumbered page:

  Because everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do.

• 2021, Cate Sevilla, How to Work Without Losing Your Mind, unnumbered page:

  It's the trope of starving artists, our glorification of the young, slightly mad, work-obsessed entrepreneurs. The girlbosses hustling on Instagram.

• 2021, "Duchess Wibberfluffle", Flawless, My Dear: How to Be More Bridgerton (An Unofficial Advisory), unnumbered page:

  […] how to be a girlboss in what may seem like a man's world; […]

• 2021, Judy Berman, "What comes after the pop-culture girlboss", Time, 5 July 2021 - 12 July 2021, page 98:

  But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.

• 2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

  It isn’t as though contemporary culture has abandoned reductive stereotypes. Think of the girlboss, the femmepreneur, “that girl.”