Daily Inspiration Quote by Loretta Young

A “pleasant voice” sounds like old-Hollywood charm until Loretta Young tightens the definition: it “has to include clear enunciation.” That little insistence gives away the era’s real agenda. In studio-system America, voice wasn’t just personality; it was a credential. To speak cleanly was to signal poise, class, and control in a business built on packaging women as both accessible and impeccably managed. Young isn’t describing a natural gift so much as a practiced performance, the kind you train for the way you train for lighting, posture, and wardrobe.

The line “not only attractive to those who hear it” frames vocal beauty as social currency: your voice doesn’t merely express you, it works on other people. It’s persuasion without the stigma of trying. The subtext is quietly disciplinary. Clear enunciation implies self-editing, smoothing regional edges, suppressing anger, keeping desire tasteful. It’s the sound of belonging, especially for women expected to be agreeable but not intrusive, present but not messy.

Then she lands the pitch: “its appeal is permanent.” In a culture that treats female attractiveness as perishable, permanence is a loaded promise. Young is selling an asset that survives aging and trend cycles, an elegance you can keep when youth and novelty move on. It’s also a savvy professional note from an actress whose livelihood depended on being heard as much as seen: a voice, unlike a face in close-up, can travel across rooms, radios, and decades.