“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”

“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.”

“The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.”

“A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.”

“If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”

“That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.”