Lapham’s Quarterly

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

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

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

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

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

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

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

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

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

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