Quotes from Nancy Etcoff

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.