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

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

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