Beauty Quote by Mary Gaitskill

“She is by no means a model character.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze…

— Donna Ball

“She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.”

— Tim Tharp

“The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“I looked at the fashion model and reassured myself she wasn't dead.”

— Tara Moss

“The damage to her body, the wear and the weariness, were all products of conscious, determined choices made by a girl she hadn’t been…

— James S.A. Corey

“She could have been a former lingerie model or a ravenous zombie from a postapocalyptic world.”

— Orest Stelmach

“In a short space of time, she had become indispensable, rather like a comfortable grey gown in which one always appears respectable and can…

— Joan Smith

“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.”

— Glen Duncan

“Without any outward sign or motion, in the wreckage of herself, she donned her armor, made it firm around her heart. Raise her mask:…

— Seth Dickinson

“I looked at her. She wore a very tight and tiny two-piece orange bathing swimsuit that inadequately covered the overplump body I'd been using…

— Gil Brewer