“No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women, ' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man, ' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.”
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My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
