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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920