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

„[It] is all about the African woman, her beauty and how she makes herself beautiful. An African woman is therefore not to be messed up with or looked down upon because she’s feminine. Even though she’s beautiful, she’s strong and has a sense of pride.“

—  Muma Gee Nigerian singer and songwriter 1978

In " The role Emeka Ike played in my marriage http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/the-role-emeka-ike-played-in-my-marriage/" by Opeoluwani Ogunjimi on vanguardngr.com, June 15, 2013: On her song "African Woman Skillashy"

„You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

„Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.“

—  Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

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

—  Germaine Greer Australian feminist author 1939

Source: The Whole Woman

„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.“

—  J.M. Coetzee, book Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

„I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.“

—  Marguerite Duras, book The Lover

Source: The Lover

„It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I am terribly sorry. I'm tired."“

—  Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008

Upon winning the 1986 Academy Award for Best Actor, (in The Color of Money), after having being nominated seven times; quoted in Tom O'Neil, "Gold Derby," http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2006/09/an_oscar_finall.html, Los Angeles Times (2006-09-03)

„She sent him scented letters,
And he received them with a strange delight.
Just like his wife
But how she was before the tears,
And how she was before the years flew by,
And how she was when she was beautiful.“

—  Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)

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

—  Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962

„As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.“

—  Jennifer Weiner, book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

„I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.“

—  Ted Dekker American writer 1962

Source: Blink of an Eye

„He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.“

—  George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

„You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.“

—  Marjane Satrapi Artist 1969

„Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.“

—  Dave Attell comedian 1965

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

—  Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934

As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

„When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.“

—  Jean Giraudoux French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright 1882 - 1944

The Man in The Apollo of Bellac: A Play in One Act, p. 12 (1954, as adapted by Maurice Valency).

„She never came back. The family
Sort of drifted off. Nobody wears shiny boots like that now.
But I know she is beautiful forever, and lives
In a beautiful house, far away.
She called my name once. I didn't even know she knew it.“

—  Robert Penn Warren American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905 - 1989

"True Love"

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

—  William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1

Suffolk, Act V, scene iii.
Source: Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)

„Who on earth could blame them? Ah, no wonder
the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered
years of agony all for her, for such a woman.
Beauty, terrible beauty!
A deathless goddess—so she strikes our eyes!“

—  Homér, Iliad

III. 156–158 (tr. Robert Fagles); of Helen.
Richmond Lattimore's translation:
: Surely there is no blame on Trojans and strong-greaved Achaians
if for long time they suffer hardship for a woman like this one.
Terrible is the likeness of her face to immortal goddesses.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Original: (el) Οὐ νέμεσις Τρῶας καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδας Ἀχαιοὺς
τοιῇδ' ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν·
αἰνῶς ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇς εἰς ὦπα ἔοικεν.