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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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