The Power of Beauty Quotes

“Perhaps you ducked out of the competition over looks so many years ago that you can't remember. But once you did want to be seen, taken in, and loved. If you don't today, consider that it might be because you tried and lost. Lost to your brother or sister; maybe get lost in the abyss of invisibility, a parent demanding that all eyes be on her or him. Who wants to remember such pain? Perhaps, instead, you won and were hated for it. Envy can be a killer.”
― Nancy Friday, The Power of Beauty

“I am a woman who needs to be seen. I need it in a basic way, as in to breathe, to eat. Or not to be seen, that is the lifelong preoccupation of finding myself in others' eyes, the need to be taken in so that my existence is noted.”
― Nancy Friday, The Power of Beauty