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My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910