Tana French Quotes

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!

and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

I was so pretty, actresses didn't want to work with me.

Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Anyone who is gossiping is just insecure about that person they're gossiping about.