Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.

By Naomi Wolf

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

By Edna St Vincent Millay

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you

By Susan Sarandon

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

By Suzanne Finnamore

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

By Russell Brand

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.

By Rebecca Johns

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

By Howard Zinn

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.

By Criss Jami

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

By John Ruskin

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

By Germaine Greer

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

By John Steinbeck

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

By Frank Sinatra

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

By Audre Lorde