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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

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890