And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Hero Ride gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with an incredible charity, and the beauty of this challenge is that you can set the boundaries: whether you can manage 10 miles or 100 miles on the ride to Blackheath, Hero Ride is for everyone.
I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.
There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.
I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
The foundation of beauty is the body.
What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he's a Don Quixote.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
