| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45243 |
| QUOTATION: | Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emily Prager (b. 1948), U.S. journalist, author. Lao Bing, in A Visit from the Footbinder, Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, eds. Christine Park and Caroline Heaton (1987). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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