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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967