# Quote — Gregory Benford, Artifact

> She always dressed well, but he recognized the signs of insecurity; certitude was inversely proportional to the amount of makeup.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [Artifact](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact.md)
- Page: 243
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Artifact_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/she-always-dressed

## More from this book

> This was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between today’s thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/this-was-what.md)

> Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/just-because-somethings.md)

> Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/still-claire-hated.md)