Nancy Etcoff quotes
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“The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.”
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“Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.”
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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.”
-- Nancy EtcoffSource : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor
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“The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.”
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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.”
-- Nancy EtcoffSource : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor
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“Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.”
-- Nancy EtcoffSource : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor
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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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“When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.”
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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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“Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.”
-- Nancy EtcoffSource : Nancy Etcoff (2011). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, p.77, Anchor
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