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Nancy L. Etcoff
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“The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.”
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“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.”
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“Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.”
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“... throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.”
Nancy L. Etcoff, U.S. writer, cognitive researcher, educator
(1955)