“Jolie laide = "pretty ugly"Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.”

“Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

“I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.”

“In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.”

“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”

“For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!”