“And in Physical Enquiries, we must endevour to follow Nature in the more plain and easie ways she treads in the most simple and uncompounded bodies, to trace her steps, and be acquainted with her manner of walking there, before we venture our selves into the multitude of meanders she has in bodies o…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo. To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“We grew up with the impression that underneath all this normal flesh, buried deep in the excessive recesses of our healthy bodies, there was a Perfect Body just waiting to break out. It would look exactly like everyone else's perfect body.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be all right. I learned very early to choose my lines c…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“I knew what I looked like. I had mirrors in my home. I'd just seen myself in pictures. I wasn't in the dark about it. I just assumed at that time that if I could display a talent worthy of praise, if I could prove that I was worthy of attention, that I wasn't just who you thought I was... I guess I…”— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com
“Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, "That object is me." We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”— Dan Brown, amazon.com
“And if there's anything worse than a word that encourages us to shrink ourselves, it's a word that asks us to constantly evaluate ourselves. Picking clothes based on how "flattering" they are for our body has required us to inspect and criticize every inch of our beings.”— Kate Ward, bustle.com
“Gaining weight and pulling my head out of the toilet was the most political act I ever committed.”— Barbara Findlen, amazon.com
“We are the unholy. We are the bastard sons of your media culture. Our minds, eyes, and bodies were born of your exclusion, an illusion you hide behind.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“A lag time exists between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“Sexual ethics requires, still and always, that the individual conform to a certain art of living which defines the aesthetic and ethical criteria of existence. But this art refers more and more to universal principles of nature or reason, which everyone must observe in the same way, whatever their s…”— Michel Foucault, amazon.com
“What are we doing that makes you feel like there’s not enough sex to go around for all of us?”— Monique Judge, theroot.com
“I wonder how our bodies will change as we get old. I wonder how we’ll feel about things that haven’t happened to us yet.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Lovemaking is about your lover’s mind, body and soul, the whole person, not just her body.”— Christina Antonyan, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you have sex with someone you love, you’re not busy thinking about how you’re going to sneak out of their bedroom and ignore their texts the next day. You’re thinking about how much you care about them. About how your bodies feel like they belong together.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“The body, for good or ill, has become a primary marker of identity in this transient society where the extended family and old community ties have broken down. Style is cyclic: all standards will eventually change. But that may not be soon enough for young people (increasingly male as well as female…”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“Science Fun Fact: The only proof that you actually have a body comes from the body itself. It's all a trust game.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com