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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—George Eliot, 1872