icanhasyarn: In response to the person who talked about how to cope with an unattractive face, I recently came across this quote from Erin McKean that really resonated with me: "You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'."