Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

—Pearl Buck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

—Pearl Buck

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

—Pearl Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

—Pearl Buck

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

—Pearl Buck

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

—Margaret Cho

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

—Margaret Cho

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

—Margaret Cho

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

—Marcus Aurelius

I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

—John F. Kennedy