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1 " It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. "
― Pearl S. Buck
2 " I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time – look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. Why not give America a spokeswoman who ain't much to look at but is competent as Hell? If accomplishments actually count for women, this ought to be a no-brainer. "
― John Scalzi , Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
3 " A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. "
― Simone Weil , Waiting for God
4 " Oh, I am so sick of the young men of the present day!” exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument. “Poor, puny things, not fit to stir a step beyond papa’s park gates: nor to go even so far without mama’s permission and guardianship! Creatures so absorbed in care about their pretty faces, and their white hands, and their small feet; as if a man had anything to do with beauty! As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman—her legitimate appanage and heritage! I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentlemen, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:—Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a fillip. Such should be my device, were I a man. "
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
5 " What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson