Parenting Quote by G.A. Aiken

“Males will always make excuses for the pretty.”

— G.A. Aiken

“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that the boys…

— Liane Moriarty

“she was polite, charming, and damn pretty. Braith wanted to hate her, but she just couldn’t. The bitch.”

— G.A. Aiken

“Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.”

— Leah Raeder

“...She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire,…

— Colette

“I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, like complete shit. It is perhaps…

— John Corey Whaley

“He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless raincoat, 'aren't.”

— Robert Galbraith

“but the rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn’t really matter how ugly they were…

— Liane Moriarty

“She didn't have time to swoon over some boy, no matter how pretty he was.”

— Lisa Maxwell

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i’ve called them intelligent or brave”

— Rupi Kaur

“Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a…

— Sandra Cisneros (Author

“I’m not beautiful. My mother—” “I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips