The Greatest of Human Powers
According to Honore de Balzac, Beauty really is one of the greatest powers. We can't but agree with this wise Frenchman who definitely knew a thing or two about women and a few powerful tricks of theirs.
If you tend to disagree with the statement, just think of Cleopatra, or Marilyn Monroe or myriad of other famous beautiful women whose power was greatly backed up by their skills of beautiful female charmers. We're certainly living in men's men's world but it would be nothing, nothing without a powerfully beautiful woman or a girl, as James Brown used to sing.
Of course, such kind of power doesn't always suggest pure innocent ways of reaching heights either in politics or Hollywood (never suggest them) but oh well, what kind of power is ever associated with pure justice? Beautiful women are devious creatures and as soon as they feel their immense strength and ability to make men which surround them shiver and faint totally hypnotized, these charismatic females do their best to make the most of this power.
A stunningly beautiful woman is usually very good at manipulating any man. Most of the time she doesn't even have to put great effort to reach her pragmatic goals with the 'help' of males, she just pulls the necessary strings and shows a few sexy tricks to a victim of her powerful glamorous weapon and this victim is ready to make any of her wishes come true.
However, in order to make use of her power to the greatest extent possible, a beautiful woman should posses a few more talents combined with her heavenly appearance. She should be able to magnetize men and attract women's emotions irrespective of the latter ones' positive or negative character as long as she is emotionally reacted at. In latter (female vs. female) case it may be either positive inspiration of a totally dark envy, we are living in a men's world anyway! This beautiful woman should be also very wise and possess a certain natural charm which would suggest her intelligence and wisdom as well.
Looks like the more intelligent or wise a beautiful woman is the more power she can acquire. Depends on what one's priorities are. If a girl just wants to be attractive for a man's eye in order to successfully get married or just have as many powerful admirers as possible, it'll be enough for her to be beautiful and have minimal amount of intelligence or wit.
However, a woman who strives to reach more global heights in order to be remembered and worshipped for many years or even centuries, should possess a lot more profound qualities than her stunning beauty. She should be magnetic and charming, charismatic and mentally strong. Nevertheless, it's partially beauty that sometimes helps a woman develop such talents as wisdom, experience or that very special female talent which implies skilfully ruling a 'men's world' while males successfully consider themselves the best rulers ever.
In any case, beauty is a powerful force to make the men's world shake and crack while their male 'inhabitants' have got no clue about what is going on and deeply enjoy being harshly manipulated and wrapped round the beautiful female devils' little fingers.