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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

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961