If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Quotes
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967