To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Quotes
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Your 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. 64Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935One’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 BCThe features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009