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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

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

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605