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“I’ll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and…

— Pamela Morsi

“Elizabeth feared that because of her looks, she was doomed to meet men with unreasonably high self-images and no depth, the kind that dogged…

— Naomi Ragen

“I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining…

— Jude Morgan

“It is the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“It probably wasn't smart to judge them based on appearance. I, for instance, was destined to be a world-renowned surgeon, but between my long,…

— Carrie Harris

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like…

— George Etherege

“Captivating to men, Anne was also sharp, assertive, subtle, calculating, vindictive, a power dresser and a power player, perhaps a figure to be more…

— Eric Ives

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.”

— Lauren Willig

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

— Françoise Sagan

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.…

— Lauren Willig