There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.

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This quote is quite a paradox. It presents a woman as someone who, by fighting, swearing and ignoring tradition, can make herself more beautiful. This idea is very different from the old-fashioned view of beauty as something that can be obtained through fine clothes or elaborate toilette. In the old days, gifts from a lot of money could make a person spectacularly beautiful. Today, though, it is not what you have that makes you beautiful but how you use it.

Source: Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood

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