Beauty Quote by Naomi Wolf

“Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie, her highest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“Beauty is sometimes hidden under a veil of tragedy.”

— Karen Amanda Hooper

“Beauty like her is not born. It is suffered for, earned and shaped, until the day that it finally becomes. For there is nothing…

— Becca Lee

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“In writing, Truth is more important than Beauty.”

— G.K. Hayes

“Women: i liked the color of their clothing; the ay they alked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty…

— Charles Bukowski

“Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.”

— Thomas More

“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no…

— Naomi Wolf