Top 100 Quotes About The Beauty Of Women
#1. The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
Alberto Korda
#2. The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.
Peter Beard
#3. As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave. They all have it; they all lose it.
Virginia Woolf
#4. There is the matter of the girl, niece and heiress to the dead man. She is of great beauty," said Cadfael plainly, asserting his right to recognise and celebrate even the beauty of women, though their enjoyment he had now voluntarily forsworn,
Ellis Peters
#5. Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
Cyril Connolly
#6. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Naomi Wolf
#7. These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
Julie Burchill
#8. Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
Edward Carpenter
#9. When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Naomi Wolf
#10. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
Lord Byron
#11. I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory
tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that
but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
Stendhal
#13. The girl with a moustache" they called me every now and then
"It's about time you wax your arms" those who "cared" said
I faced the fears of the dreaded thread on my face
To succumb every other week to the world's ways
Sanhita Baruah
#14. I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.
Molly Crabapple
#16. But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have lost it, remaining, even after the very traces of it have vanished, as greedy as ever of admiration.
George MacDonald
#17. You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me?
You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
Ellen Hopkins
#18. She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.
Djuna Barnes
#19. All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children
in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
George Eliot
#20. The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.
Giorgio Vasari
#21. We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
Edith Wharton
#22. I have to say, her blonde bob was amazing. The delicate way it hugged her face and neck. The softness of it ...
James Lusarde
#23. At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.
Poppy King
#24. With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.
Groucho Marx
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Sheri McCoy
#26. 4You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. + 5This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands.
Anonymous
#27. The trouble is that so many people, most of them women, think they have to have a perfect body to be loved. But all it has to do is be capable of loving---and being loved.
Nina George
#28. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#29. Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.
Harriet Morgan
#30. Charlotte didn't care. She was floating away in a sea of happiness, wrapped up in the beauty of second love.
Lindsay Detwiler
#31. [...] and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty - they will prove that they have less mind than man.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#32. I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
Roman Payne
#33. Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.
Khaled Hosseini
#34. The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
#35. It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#36. There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
Charles Baudelaire
#37. I am aware that men are in the habit of looking at whatever women happen to be nearby, in the hopes of deriving enjoyment from their physical beauty, their hair, makeup, fragrance, and clothing.
Neal Stephenson
#38. But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.
Albert Camus
#39. I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
Shan Sa
#40. A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
Jean De La Bruyere
#41. For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.
Milan Kundera
#42. You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said.
"And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.
Frank Herbert
#43. I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Alber Elbaz
#44. With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
William Morris
#45. You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to scratch your eyes out. If that isn't the stuff of fairy tales, I don't know what is.
Zoey Dean
#46. She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.
Nicole Lyons
#47. Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
William Carlos Williams
#48. Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies
women must be skinny to be attractive and being attractive should be a priority
via the typical verbiage of female disempowerment.
Kim Socha
#49. The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.
Elizabeth George
#50. Hopper's paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly toxic and strangulating with age.
Olivia Laing
#51. Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it - every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.
Ashton Applewhite
#52. I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
Diane Wakoski
#53. Beauty is not an exclusive club - there are no unattractive women, just some that don't know understand the power of makeup.
Charlotte Tilbury
#54. The ethereal beauty of the female semblance conceals that they really are dangerous like a great white shark in the most peaceful and deep water.
(quote from the exhibit at the Cultural Museum)
Czon
#55. Because our nation is stupid and Hollywood is coarse, there is no one to tell us of the deep and extraordinary beauty of older women. I now see them all around me and am filled with a fierce joy that one of them has come to live in my house.
Pat Conroy
#56. The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.
Leigh Hunt
#57. O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
Rabindranath Tagore
#58. The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Minna Antrim
#59. Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#60. My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.
Roksanda Ilincic
#61. Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#63. The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.
Germaine Greer
#64. So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#65. I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.
Scott Bradfield
#66. [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#67. The one, true unique beauty is woman. The rest, all the rest, exists simply to adorn her.
Yasmina Khadra
#68. Magazines wanted Jessica Rabbit - the animated character - not real women. Heck, even supermodels weren't good enough anymore. Real women didn't sell magazines. Unrealistic and unhealthy images of female beauty sold magazines.
Penny Reid
#69. The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
Christina Aguilera
#70. Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
Natalie Dormer
#71. thought much of women; their grace and beauty, blooming like lotus flowers, floating like milkweed on the wind.
Diana Gabaldon
#72. Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman's body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it's impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.
S.K. Logsdon
#73. In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
Susan Faludi
#74. Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty
Honore De Balzac
#75. There is only two types of women in the world:
1. beautiful
2. very beautiful
Gauri Shankar Gupta
#76. I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.
Kate Grenville
#77. The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women ... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
#78. Anna returned her gaze to the bankers' wives, who huddled into the company of one another. The women were young. Their husbands wore the jewellery of their beauty like elegant wristwatches.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#79. The biggest thing for women to keep in mind is you can't ever let someone define beauty for you. Look in the mirror and say that this is my definition of perfection.
Jennie Runk
#80. You should be proud of the pleasure you give to others' eyes.
BadSquirrel
#81. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Germaine Greer
#82. She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.
Edmund Wilson
#83. Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing.
Vivian Marie Feggans
#84. I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.
Anne Rice
#85. So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.
Thomas Adcock
#86. But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.
Pearl S. Buck
#87. It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
George Bernard Shaw
#88. I know a lot of aesthetically beautiful women who are not nice people, and they do not come across as beautiful to me. I think the number one thing for beauty is a smile. I love a woman with a beautiful smile.
Sara Foster
#89. Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.
Margaret M. Lock
#90. Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless
D.H. Lawrence
#91. This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Zadie Smith
#92. The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#93. Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
Coco Chanel
#94. The power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?
Paulo Coelho
#95. Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.
Crystal Woods
#96. I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
Halle Berry
#97. The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Naomi Wolf
#98. Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
Michel De Montaigne
#99. These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#100. There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.
Pawan Mishra
