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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

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949