"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the……" — Maya Angelou

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to… - Maya Angelou

"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

— Maya Angelou

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761 Quotes by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou has 761 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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