The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
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.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.
It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.