It’s strange that if you take a step back from the TV, you can see that women are marketed to in the same way with everything - you are not enough as you are, but buy our product and you will be. Every fucking magazine is full of gossip, diets, stories of dramatic weight loss and things that have happened in relationships. It grows women up with a false and superficial view of beauty they know subconciously is just wrong, as what is on the surface quickly disappears.
So you make your hair shiny with a nice style, stop eating properly, wear the season’s clothes, slap on a tonne of make-up, shave your legs, whiten your teeth, put on the fake tan, pull in your stomach, set up a cleavage or a short skirt, and act like a WAG. That’s supposed to be the commonly accepted idea of beauty? FUCK THAT.
So i thought it useful to take a look at where beauty comes from, according to some of the widely acknowledged beautiful women of the world. You’ll see they all share something in common, and it’s an appreciation that beauty is radiated outwards from within.
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
Sir Francis Bacon
What makes a girl gorgeous is more than her appearance, size and shape. Her personality is her true source of beauty.
“It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.”
Unknown
“Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.”
La Rochefoucauld
This quotation about beauty and personality supports the idea that imperfection can make a woman more attractive – which has been proven by research.
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a like from within.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Charm…it’s sort of a bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.”
J.M Barrie
Part of being charming is making others feel accepted, loved, and respected. Charm is a true source of beauty.
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
Sophia Loren
“It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast.”
Julie Burchill
Your appearance isn’t a true source of beauty, because it inevitably changes and fades.
“A better self-image doesn’t pay the rent or cook supper or prevent nuclear war. Feeling better about ourselves doesn’t change the world by itself, but it can give us energy to do what we want and to work for change.”
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
A great self-image not only makes a girl gorgeous, it energizes her to follow her dreams and passions.
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren
Feeling good about yourself is the connection between beauty and self-image. The more comfortable you are in your own skin, the more beautiful you are.
“Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.”
Gloria Steinem
“Why hope to live a long life if we’re only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance, and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim, ‘She looked ten years younger,’ or do we want them to say, ‘She lived a great life!’ ”
Unknown
A beautiful woman doesn’t have to choose between living a great life and looking ten years younger – but living a great life can lead to looking ten years younger. Now, that’s beautiful.
Or of course, for some it may look like this:
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