“Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”

“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”

“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.”

“It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”

“I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.”