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It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would h

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess youd call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. – Lisa See

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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. Thats universal in womens friendships. – Lisa See

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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. – Lisa See

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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. – Lisa See

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Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. – Sara Teasdale

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. – David Herbert Lawrence

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