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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797