Pat Conroy Quotes

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

I think there is something lovely when a woman looks well.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.

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

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

Is she not passing fair?

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.