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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—George Eliot, 1872

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64