Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

18919 quotes

G
"Beautiful women are not as common as beautiful moments."
Germaine Greer
G
"Beauty is a construct."
Germaine Greer
G
"Older women know who they are and that is what makes them beautiful."
Germaine Greer
A
"Beauty is used as a weapon against women's liberation."
Andrea Dworkin
G
"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of how they look."
Gloria Steinem
G
"I think a woman's body is a work of art."
Gloria Steinem
b
"Beauty exists in authenticity"
bell hooks
b
"Beauty is in diversity and difference"
bell hooks
G
"Every woman knows that being beautiful means conforming to a very narrow range of what men find attractive."
Germaine Greer
K
"Intersectionality teaches us that difference is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be honored."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
b
"Beauty exists in imperfection and authenticity."
bell hooks
A
"Beauty standards are mechanisms of control over women's bodies and minds."
Andrea Dworkin
G
"Beauty standards are not universal; they are tools of control."
Gloria Steinem
S
"Beauty standards are weapons used to keep women competing and compliant."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"The beauty in accepting yourself as you are is radical in a world demanding transformation."
Shulamith Firestone
G
"Real beauty is the beauty of a woman who knows her own power."
Germaine Greer
b
"Beauty exists not in perfection but in authenticity and presence."
bell hooks
S
"The beauty standard is a tool of patriarchal control over women's self-image."
Shulamith Firestone
"Light and strength, touch and time, touch and wonder."
Audre Lorde
B
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but truth is universal."
Barbara Smith
B
"Beauty is everywhere if you know how to look."
Barbara Smith
G
"A man's face is his autobiography; a woman's face is her work of fiction."
Gloria Steinem
b
"Beauty exists in places we've been taught to look away from"
bell hooks
A
"The beauty of life lies in its capacity for change."
Angela Davis
G
"You're supposed to be an object of beauty, but you're also supposed to be dead inside."
Germaine Greer
G
"We are taught to value ourselves as objects, and the value placed on us is always less than our worth."
Germaine Greer
b
"Beauty exists in the refusal to settle for less than our dreams."
bell hooks
A
"Beauty exists in the struggle for justice."
Angela Davis
A
"We need to imagine a world where beauty is not commodified or controlled by corporations."
Angela Davis
A
"Beauty exists in resistance, in the faces of those who refuse to be broken."
Angela Davis