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Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003