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Body Quotes by Susie Orbach
- Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production…
- Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
- In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
- Skinny' is only one body type.
- The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
- There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
- I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as…
- If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work.…
- Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine