Nancy Etcoff
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.Collection: Motivation
Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.Collection: Touching
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.Collection: Self
In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.Collection: Beauty
The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.Collection: Real
The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.Collection: Beauty
When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.Collection: Cute
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.Collection: Beauty
Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.Collection: Beauty
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.Collection: Beauty
Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.Collection: Beauty