It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Quotes
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 BCAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797To 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, 1981The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975