Quote by Cornelia Otis Skinner

It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.


It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't year

Summary

In this quote, the speaker expresses a desire to be beautiful and glamorous but questions the feasibility and time-consuming nature of the beauty routines society seems to expect from women. The speaker acknowledges the effort necessary to achieve and maintain societal standards of beauty and suggests that it requires an exceptional level of dedication. Their statement highlights the unrealistic expectations placed upon women to conform to idealized beauty standards and questions the merit of these expectations considering the time and effort investment required.

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Fashion
By Cornelia Otis Skinner
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