All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949