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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975