#beau

Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have a baby, Which accounts for the success of such plays as the Irish Rose of Abie, The idea apparently being that just by being fruitful You are doing something beautiful, Which if it is true Means that the common housefly is several million times more beautiful than me or you. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #beauty

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

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric ↗

— Lily Blake

#love #people #beauty

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#because #been #being #film #forgiving

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet... ↗

— Anne Rice

#bad #bdsm #beauty #girl #punishment

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache. ↗

— Curly Howard

#had #hair #i #mustache #waxed

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#beautiful #because #dumb #get #most

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. ↗

— Anna Gould

#beauty #essential #respect #wisdom #wise

There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things. ↗

— Adam Bagdasarian

#heart #inner-beauty #love #beauty

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#empathy #giving #love #solutions #beauty