The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
Julie BurchillOnly those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
Julie BurchillWhen did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
Julie Burchill