And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest because bound feet never age.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus there exists no beautiful woman none at all because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence her personality. Beauty is not enough.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was or my young beauty because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

After all it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence though deficient in personal charms than I have been by the most regular beauty.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today so beauty is something that changes with time.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage only seeks to adorn its prison.

At fifteen beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

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

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Beauty n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.