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Quotes About Beauty

I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.
~ Salma Hayek
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
~ Max Beerbohm
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.
~ Tyra Banks
Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.
~ Manolo Blahnik
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief.
~ Gore Vidal
My look is attainable. Women can look like
~ Audrey Hepburn
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
~ Matt Lauer
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
~ Margaret Cho
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
~ Paul Klee
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
~ Andrea Dworkin
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
~ Stendhal
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
~ Robert A Heinlein
I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
~ Joan Crawford
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
~ Courtney Love
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
~ Thomas Hardy
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not.
~ William Shakespeare
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
~ Unknown
Give us that grand word woman once again, And let's have done with lady; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~ Edgar Saltus
War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
~ Unknown
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
~ Germaine Greer
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~ Naomi Wolf