My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Quotes
If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981I 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 body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910