Throughout history, women have been considered sources of beauty. Since the Middle Ages, women remembered and well documented in poetry and stories are supposedly all one thing: beautiful. A woman's beauty does not simply represent her physical beauty, but the knowledge, power, personality, and even hardships the woman has endured. Strong and significant women of this period and previous periods have entire literary works dedicated to their beauty and appearance. Goddesses, such as Aphrodite or Venus, the Virgin Mary, Nature; these women are central figures from the beginning of the Anno Domini, through medieval literature, to the present day. In the Middle Ages, "everyday" women in literature were also described through their beauty. Women who have strong and driving roles in the works of this period convey wisdom, kindness, the sense that although men were the superior gender, women are still the ones who bring life into this world and make this life worth living. In the writings of Boethius, Alan de Lille and Chaucer there are three women whose beauty and physical characteristics are central to understanding their personalities and the works themselves. The women are those of Lady Philosophy, Nature and White Queen. Each woman's beauty is described based on what the author wanted the reader to focus on in the woman's personality: the intellect in Lady Philosophy, the high status she once held and the role of mother to Nature, and the good heart and kindness in the White Queen. In Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy is given the briefest physical description of the three allegorical women, but contains the most symbolism. Lady Philosophy's beauty... in the center of the card... bothered others and no one was ever harmed by talking to her. The truth, a vow made with a sense of honor and honesty, was even embodied in the Queen (Chaucer, line 1003). The White Queen is a woman of pure heart and only kindness and love can radiate from her. The allegorical women of Lady Philosophy, Nature and the White Queen encompass all the ways a woman can be beautiful, inside and out. outside: intellectuality, motherhood, kindness and purity of heart. The miraculous qualities of these three women are that each of them embodies these four traits, but brings to light and focuses on only one. Lady Philosophy offers us the gift of understanding divine knowledge, Nature, the love that only a mother can give to her children, and the White Queen, continuous kindness for all beings. Their beauty is simply the outward sign of all the goodness within.