My assessment lines up more or less with yours. I was 20 when she made the remark about not being about staying home and baking cookies. I was forging my own identity as a woman, but looking back, I remember being struck by how angry she seemed when she said it. I didn’t know then that she had failed the DC bar, been thrown off the Watergate investigation, that she had made an illegal trade in cattle futures, etc.. I thought she was average looking. Pictures of her as a child show a child with pretty eyes. Now I see what you see - a snake.
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
Coco Chanel
The baking cookies video was exactly the one I looked up a few weeks back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EGranwN_uk
She does come across SO angry.
And then there was this one on the Today Show (1992) being interviewed by Perky Couric where she tries to soften her tone some:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-namImCszCk
Hill does have good cheekbones.