What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

Her face, seen so close, is built of great flats of skin pressed clean of color except for a burnish of yellow that adds to their size mineral weight, the weight of some pure porous stone carted straight from quarries to temples. Words come from this monumental Ruth in the same scale, as massive wheels rolling to the porches of his ears, as mute coins spinning in the light. "You have it pretty good.

Alexandra's fat bare toes, corned and bent by years in shoes shaped by men's desires and cruel notions of beauty

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

If you don't see your worth, you'll always choose people who don't see it either. When your self esteem rises, your life follows.

Im beautiful in my own way, because God makes no mistakes.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any