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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—George Eliot, 1872

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958