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I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.