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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

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

Pretty girls have problems too.

Girls are soft and pretty.

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.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

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.

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.

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.