If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.
I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.