#beau

Maybe it was Roumiya's beauty that drove me away, her silent beauty, her eyes that seemed to be looking through everythig and draining it of all meaning. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#beauty

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#destiny #island #landscape #luck #south-carolina

Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters. ↗

— Matthew Carter

#beauty

The days we spend apart bleed together until time is an obstacle we must overcome. ↗

— I FORGOT HER NAME... lemme update this here... it's from Beautiful Creatures

#beauty

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#labor #society #beauty

Iyan ang hirap sa usapang ito. Ano ba naman ang kamuwangan ng mga pipituhing taon sa mga beauty contests? Laro lang ang tingin nila sa lahat ng bagay at komo laro, gagawin lang nila pag gusto nila. Pag nasa mood sila. Karaniwan na ina lan ang may gustong mapalaban ang anak nila, masabing kabilang ito sa magaganda maging ang pinakamaganda kung maaari. Baya'n mo Baya'n mong mabilad siya sa init, mapagod siya, lagnatin siya, sipunin siya. Gusto ng nanay ang tropeo, gusto ng nanay ang karangalan. ↗

— Lualhati Bautista

#beauty

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #self-esteem #self-image #society #beauty

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#beauty

Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky ↗

— George Byron Gordon

#beauty