2 or 3 things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison

This book brings up a good issue of beauty. What is beauty exactly? Is it your physical appearance, how you carry yourself the way your hair lays flat or the bright colors of your eyes or is beauty who you are as a person, your innocence, your grace? In the book, Dorothy Allison talks about how in her community that females were not known as beautiful. Since they were known to have lots of babies which wore them out, they lost their young vibrance but took on a older tired look. They were just looked at as sluts, child bearers but not beautiful. "We werent virgins, even if we really are". The stereotype of negative image placed upon these women started to make them think that they were not beautiful nor was anyone else. They were conditioned to think that they were sexual objects used to bear children. These women whole idea of beauty and self worth were distorted due to the pregnancies and tendencies of some women. Dorothy Allison never had the chance to be beautiful. Her motther and aunt were forced to grow up fast due to the fact of having babies so she to was not able to have her young beautiful stage in life. The question is, even though these girls were forced to believe that they had nothing to do with beauty, does that mean that its true ?