“That perilous distance from where the face of any woman would look ugly.”
“Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.”
“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”
“Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.”
“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”
“Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)”