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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855