Muriel Barbury. The elegance of the hedgehog (№ 34852)

... in our society, poor, ugly and even intelligent woman is doomed to an unenviable existence, which is useful to get used as soon as possible. Beauty is forgiven everything, even stupidity. And if it is applied and the mind, it is not just compensation, which nature, restoring the balance, gives the most disadvantaged of their children, and bauble, luxury, side appendage to the treasure. Ugliness is always guilty, and it was my evil fate, and the fact that I'm not an idiot, she has deteriorated.