Top 11 Quotes by Nancy Etcoff

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

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

Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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 services.

Nancy Etcoff

Beauty, Army, Priorities

Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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 happiness.

Nancy Etcoff

Touching, Listening, Essentials

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 self.

Nancy Etcoff

Self, Mirrors, World

Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

Nancy Etcoff

Real, Ideas, Myth

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

Nancy Etcoff

Beauty, Real, Ideas

When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

Cute, Children, Kids

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

Nancy Etcoff

Beauty, Dream, Imagination

Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Nancy Etcoff

Beauty, Plato, Heart