However, the environment suffered, as the beautiful Tuscan countryside was slowly urbanized and motor vehicle traffic threatened to suffocate not just the city but the entire region.
She offers a counterbalance to the "bad press" Hecuba has copped (with Euripides transforming her into a scheming wild dog of revenge for the atrocities she suffered) in this beautiful, terrifying, almost uncannily eloquent play.
What surprised me was the extent to which my Islander as well as his fellow men suffered because they were beautiful.
She quoted Yeats to her friend: "We who are born woman know that one must suffer to be beautiful".
Historically, women have told themselves they had to "suffer to be beautiful," but Ms. Bergstein shows that women are just as willing to suffer to be successful.
We who are born women know that you must suffer to be beautiful, O.K., but that's the least of it.
"You must suffer to be beautiful," my mother always said to me, and while I take issue with the "must" part, it seems she was right – physical pain is now part of the summer package.
Most of us in menopause don't subscribe to the philosophy that we must suffer to be beautiful, so you can skip anything that makes you feel like you've been stung by a wasp!
It left my skin feeling only marginally less sore than shaving did and brought to mind an annoying little homily my mother used to tell me, "You have to suffer to be beautiful".
When I was growing up, my elegant mother, whose closet was full of beautiful shoes, often told me, quite cheerfully, "You have to suffer for beauty".
