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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797