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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

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Chinua Achebe, 1958