Nancy Etcoff Quotes

#1. The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

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#2. Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

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#3. Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

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#4. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

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#5. When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive ... abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

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#6. Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

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#7. Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

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#8. Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

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#9. In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

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