The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.

A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.

Le bonheur est la poésie des femmes.

Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

Oh, all
Know love is woman's happiness.

For beauty is enhanced by clothes of style.

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

A happy woman is a woman relaxed in her body and heart: powerful, unpredictable, deep, potentially wild and destructive, or calm and serene, but always full of life, surrendered to and moved by the great force of her oceanic heart. When you ask her to analyze her heart’s emotions, it’s like building walls around a part of the ocean and turning it into a swimming pool. It’s safer and more predictable, but far less alive and enlivening. Most men have made their women into swimming pools by continually treating them like men, talking with them about their feelings as if they can be analyzed to the point of “fixing” them.

Perfect beauty is to be found only in woman,’ she said, ‘so yield to me and I shall let you taste undreamed of happiness…’

The nve of the collection is about accentuating the femininity of a woman, because if a woman looks good they feel good, and it radiates where she goes.