Flesh Quote by Benjamin Franklin

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to…

— Benjamin Franklin

My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress,…

— Benjamin Franklin

I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was…

— Thomas Merton

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the…

— Rachel Cusk

“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive nature, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

— Murray Bookchin

I realized that I had an eating disorder in which I controlled myself to a point that I would not let myself enjoy what…

— Jeannie Mai

During that time in my life when I felt really out of control, food was just an issue for me, where it was either…

— Rachel Sennott

Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I…

— Tracy Thompson

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I…

— Max Ehrmann

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when…

— Jena Morrow

I probably suffered from a narcissistic disorder in some way.

— Richard Ashcroft