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Quotes

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920