Quotes About Body

She could taste a nuanced ethical understanding of the patent system all over his body.

The women were thus simultaneously dressed up and stripped down. The evidence of an overmaterialized and scopically available body emerges not out of bare flesh or real ornaments, but instead from their phantasmic conflation, an overlapping of surfaces located in teasing peripheries: the borders of a collar, the peep of a hem, the gleaming edge of a sleeve.

The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.

Saetan laughed, genuinely amused. "No, I wouldn't think he would. He's in his prime, virile, living, and well trained in seduction. That twelve-year-old body must be driving him out of his skin.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them.

This body has been disturbed." "I'd be disturbed too if I was suddenly dead," I replied.

I don't want the body,* she whimpered. *It hurts.* *Not always, sweetheart. Not always. Without the body, how will you hear a bird's song? How will you feel a warm summer rain on your skin? How will you taste nutcakes? How will you walk on a beach at sunset and feel the sand and surf under your... hooves?*

Stupid body. Stupider brain for not posting a sign that said DREAM THREAT—PLEASE IGNORE.

The remarkable thing is that body shape, as an avenue of female competition, has taken on a life of its own. It has escaped from its roots in men's actual mate preferences. Despite this, many feminist writers have identified men as the chief culprits responsible for alienating women from their own bodies.

SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHINGis something you knowinstinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your headat sixteen.

Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling and desire melts the limbs. Boundaries of body, category of thought, are confounded.

Soul is the place, stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, where such necessity grinds itself out.

I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind - or did her mind go first, it's sort of hard to disentangle - and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn't say how that made me furious beyond measure.

Ever since the field of biology emerged in the United States and Europe at the start of the nineteenth century, it has been bound up in debates over sexual, racial, and national politics. And as our social viewpoints have shifted, so has the science of the body.

when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

You'll have the use of my body, Breck, until my mother is dead, but that's all you'll have of me. Not one word of tenderness, not one ounce of compassion or concern. If you're tired, if you're hurt, if you're sick, plan to go elsewhere for succor, because you won't find it with me! Those are my terms, Breck, and they're the only terms you'll get from me.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

During the rainstorms of April the oyster rises from the sea and opens its shell - rain enters it - when it sinks the raindrops become the pearl. So take a picnic, open your body, and give birth to pearls. â €

This is the desk I sit at and this is the desk where I love you too much and this is the typewriter that sits before me where yesterday only your body sat before me

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

To this day, I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I have an eating disorder; not in that I am anorexic or bulimic—I'm not—but in the sense that I feel extremely guilty every time I eat anything that isn't water. Of course I have body issues.

When I made love and climaxed, I felt that my body was basically no different from that of a man.

Son corps est jeune et sa pensée vieille.

Jeg udmålte tiden på en anden måde, med hele min krop. Jeg opdagede hvad man faktisk er i stand til, nemlig hvad som helst. Ophøjede eller dødelige former for begær, mangel på værdighed samt overbevisninger og opførsel som jeg havde opfattet som forrykte hos andre indtil jeg så mig selv tage tilflugt til dem. Uden at han var klar over det, fik han mig til at føle mig mere forbundet med verden.