We should always keep our behavior or performance separate from our sense of self-worth.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

when people cease to be surrounded by beauty, they cease to hope.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.5 Of course, if you have to choose between beautiful slavery and an ugly Exodus, you must go for the Exodus, but, as William Temple said in a different (though related) context, fortunately we don't have to make that choice.

Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it—our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

At the foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.