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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—George Eliot, 1872

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014