One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too ___1___ of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, diet products, fashion, and plastic ___2____.Why do we care so much about how we look? Because it __3_. Because beauty is powerful. Because even when we learn to value people mostly for being kind and wise and funny, we are still moved by beauty. No matter how much we _4__ it or pretend to be immune, beauty ___5_ its power over us. There is simply no escape.Our __6__ to physical beauty is not something we can control ___7__. We are born with it. Experiments conducted by psychologist Judith J. Langlois showed that even small infants prefer to look at attractive faces. Before they have met a single supermodel, before they have watched a single TV show, before they have opened up a single fashion magazine, they are drawn to the same faces which adults have ___8__ to be attractive.There are more important things in life than beauty. But as Etcoff says, “We have to understand beauty, or we will always be__9__ by it.” If you aim to be wise and kind and funny, it doesn’t mean that you can’t also try your best to look beautiful. There’s no reason to ___10__ being moved by beauty’s power. It moves us all.