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Quotes About Beauty

The rhythm of sunrise, the rhythm of sunset, filled her life.
~ Bessie Head
You're goig through a neighborhood and there's no people, no grass, no birds, no animals... and it's beautiful but you know how screwed up it is that it looks that way, what it means that it looks that way." - Kit Boggio
~ Best Friends Animal Society
Both a baby and a poem masquerade as something we've created, when we know that they arrive from somewhere beyond us, that they are gifts.
~ Beth Ann Fennelly
I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.
~ Beth Ditto
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
~ Beth Ditto
I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone ' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.
~ Beth Ditto
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
~ Beth Ditto
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
~ Beth Ditto
1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest" 3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-healed shoes--I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them .. Thelma Rae Goodpepper in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
~ beth hoffman
A small patch of sunflowers came into view. Dozens of tall stalks topped with heavy golden flower heads swayed in they hot breeze. From a distance they looked like a group of ladies with their heads hung low, as if embarrassed that they'd arrived at a party wearing identical hats.
~ beth hoffman
Wisteria is my favorite flowering vine. Do you know why?' I shook my head. 'No, ma'am.' 'Because it's strong -- just like me.
~ beth hoffman
After explaining how a pearl is made she said: "It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and give us our beauty.
~ beth hoffman
You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.
~ beth hoffman
I'm fascinated with antiques," Miz Goodpepper said, bathing in a pool of soft light from the window. "I find there's a sweet sorrow in object that have slipped away from their original owners.
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
Her laughter was a wondrous, liquid thing that splashed across my face, over the toes of my shoes, and into the grass.
~ beth hoffman
Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.
~ beth hoffman
But lately," she said, wiggling her bare toes, "I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.
~ beth hoffman
The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
~ Beth Kephart