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I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.