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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910