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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975