Oscar WildeThe curves of your lips rewrite history.
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For many years, I was envious of the curve of the lips on my mother’s face. When you look at a face that has a beautiful, gentle curve to it, you think that its owner must have been a beautiful person once. You imagine how the person must have been as a young girl, growing up in a small town in rural English countryside. As I grew up and my own lips became less lovely, I was jealous of those who had been blessed with great beauty as a child. Then one day I read this quote from Tennessee Williams: “The curves of your lips rewrite history.” For the first time in my life, I understood why my mother’s lips were so much more beautiful than mine – because they had been born into a world that valued beauty and made it into a value to be cherished.
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