In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social service…

- Nancy Etcoff

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

- Nancy Etcoff

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

- Nancy Etcoff

When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were u…

- Nancy Etcoff

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to …

- Nancy Etcoff

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

- Nancy Etcoff

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless de…

- Nancy Etcoff

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

- Nancy Etcoff

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner s…

- Nancy Etcoff