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O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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 BC