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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

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883