Lo que es verdad por el trajo lo es también por el maquillaje: se puede encontrar belleza en un rostro totalmente artificial, pero nunca se experimentará la impresión de autenticidad que produce la belleza sin maquillaje.

Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self.

Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman’s face.

Tate couldn't stop staring. She must be thirteen or fourteen, he thought. But even at that age, she had the most striking face he'd ever seen. Here large eyes nearly black, her nose slender over shapely lips, painted her in an exotic light. She was tall, thin, giving her a fragile, lithesome look as though molded wild by the wind. Yet young, strapping muscles showed through with quiet power.

What poets must seem to display, besides the objects imitated, is a beautiful negligence.

The natural beauty does not need makeup on whatever level. It is incomparable.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. "I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!

Beatrix had worn her best gown, made of shimmering aniline violet. The bodice was scooped low, revealing a generous expanse of fair skin. Her hair had been curled and swept up with a multitude of pearl-tipped pins- other than that, she wore no adornment.

I will tell you a secret: A worldly-wise lady does not need designer clothes; her irresistible personal power comes from the heart.