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Daily Inspiration Quote by Eva Herzigova

"Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more"

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Beauty is her job description, which is exactly why Eva Herzigova can afford to puncture it. "Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more" reads like a quiet rebellion against the industry that made her famous: a refusal to let the most marketable version of herself stand in for a whole person. Coming from a model - someone trained to communicate through surface, silhouette, and suggestion - the line lands as both confession and critique.

The intent feels less like self-help than self-preservation. Beauty, in fashion, is currency and cage: it opens doors, then tries to lock you inside the room it paid for. Herzigova's phrasing is tellingly simple, almost childlike, which makes the message sharper. She doesn't say beauty is bad. She says it's insufficient. That's a different argument: not moralizing, but demanding dimensionality.

The subtext is about time and control. Models are often treated as peak-and-decline stories, valued for a look that can be replaced by the next face. "There must be something more" is an insistence on durability - personality, intellect, craft, relationships, inner life - the things that don't evaporate when trends shift or youth becomes a contract you can no longer renew.

Context matters: Herzigova came up in the 90s supermodel era, when beauty became global spectacle and branding turned faces into empires. In that world, saying beauty isn't enough isn't false modesty. It's a boundary. It's a claim to authorship in a culture that prefers its beautiful people silent, smiling, and easily framed.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Herzigova, Eva. (2026, January 16). Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-beauty-isnt-enough-there-must-be-132686/

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Herzigova, Eva. "Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-beauty-isnt-enough-there-must-be-132686/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-beauty-isnt-enough-there-must-be-132686/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Eva Herzigova (born March 10, 1973) is a Model from Czech Republic.

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