I learned from her that every woman is worried
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

She has had a hard life, but so does every woman.

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress my hairdresser, my make-up, it will work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One's whole life depends on one's looks but one mayn't speak of one's own beauty

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Toda mujer que ama es una pobre inocente.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

For a girl, the fear of not being pretty is the fear of not being a valuable object, which is the fear of not being loved. It is a conflation that is instilled so early on and runs so deep that, even when you know it's a fear perpetrated by patriarchy, goaded by fashion magazines, and used to manipulate you into buying stuff, you still can't stop the way it affects you. Being a woke feminist doesn't mean you've overcome it, it just means you've learned to live with your perpetual self-loathing and your anger around it, too.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.