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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883