Our society reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social ...
Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die a...
I would have taken Zeb, purely for entertainment value, but he had an actual date, with a real girl. That hadn't happened in a while, so I was a good friend and put my own needs second to the possibility of him actual sex with a real girl.
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the ...
I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. "The ones who throw their beauty aro...
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmati...
I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl.
I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.
The most beautiful thing in the universe is time.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.
You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.
When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficult to take chances in expressing our individuality.
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.