“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
“...yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook, the line, the pole, and the water in between.”
“Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.”
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”