Angry Quote by Susan Sontag

“How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's…

— Ben Marcus

“They saw their bodies as so pure that they were not ashamed, no matter who might see them, and they regarded their bodies as…

— Jim C. Cunningham

“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they…

— Tadeusz Rózewicz

“...a great part of what unmanned me was distress at the destruction of my own body. It was odd to realise that I had…

— Robin Hobb

“But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars…

— Oscar Wilde

“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they…

— Elizabeth Hay

“In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing…

— Henry Miller

“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by a task…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the…

— Erik Erikson

“The Body was no longer what it was when Plato and Porphyry and the old mystics had left it for dead. It had hung…

— G.K. Chesterton

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and…

— Mary Roach