“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.”

— Margaret Cho

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American stand-up comedian 1968

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Faithless

“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

Source: Waiting for God

“The light will not shame you, if it shows you your own ugliness, and that ugliness so offends you that you perceive the beauty of the light.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

First Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 262
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)

“Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.”

Karen Traviss book Star Wars Republic Commando: True Colors

Source: True Colors

“An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.”

Ross Macdonald book The Way Some People Die

The Way Some People Die (1951)

“Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Because you paled on seeing my ugliness, your son shall be pale (pandu), and that will be his name, O, woman with the beautiful face.”

Vyasa central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions

Vyasa’s curse to the second widowed wife of his half brother on the son to be born to them. The second widowed princess was frightened at the ugly sight of Vyasa during their union. Thus, Pandu, a pale looking son was born to them. Quoted in P.58.
Sources, Seer of the Fifth Veda: Kr̥ṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa in the Mahābhārata

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