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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.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.

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

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

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.

When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.