Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Quotes
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920