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title: "2 Body Ignorant Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/we-are-taught-that-the-body-is-an-ignorant-animal-intelligence-dwells/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

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> [The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-body-can-t-distinguish-between-cleansing-and-punishing-for-the/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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